der Träger
Meaning in English: sponsor, operator; strap; carrier
Example
Träger des Kindergartens ist die Kirche.
The nursery is run by the church.
Der, die or das?
Träger is masculine: der Träger. 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 Träger?
Träger is number 2,040 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 45 times per million words — about once every 22,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,036sozialessocial (inflected)
- 2,037gesellschaftlichensocial, societal (inflected)
- 2,038der Verkaufsale, selling
- 2,039Schrittesteps
- 2,040der Trägersponsor, operator; strap; carrier
- 2,041vorliegento be available, to exist
- 2,042unbekannteunknown (inflected)
- 2,043speichernto save, to store
- 2,044eingestellthired; set, adjusted; stopped
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,040
- The most common German nouns#826
- German C1 vocabulary#57
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#221
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.