der Tiger
Meaning in English: tiger
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
Example
Der Tiger ist die größte Katze der Welt.
The tiger is the biggest cat in the world.
Der, die or das?
Tiger is masculine: der Tiger. 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 Tiger?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Tiger appears 3.3 times per million words — about once every 300,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.