German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Täter
Meaning in English: perpetrator, offender
Example
Die Polizei sucht noch nach dem Täter.
The police are still looking for the culprit.
Der, die or das?
Täter is masculine: der Täter. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -er are der in 126 of 160 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Täter?
Täter is number 978 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 92 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 974darseparable part of darstellen etc.
- 975Kollegencolleagues; colleague (acc./dat.)
- 976erzählttold; tells
- 977politischenpolitical
- 978der Täterperpetrator, offender
- 979das Mitgliedmember
- 980gebegive (ich); gives (reported speech)
- 981politischepolitical
- 982hingegenhowever, on the other hand
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#978
- The 5,000 most common German words#978
- The most common German nouns#340
- German B2 vocabulary#114
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#91
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