der User
Meaning in English: user
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Viele User haben sich über das Update beschwert.
Many users complained about the update.
Der, die or das?
User is masculine: der User. 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 User?
User is number 4,041 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 49,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,037traditionelletraditional
- 4,038sportlichensporting, athletic
- 4,039steigenderising, increasing
- 4,040Optionenoptions
- 4,041der Useruser
- 4,042das Elementelement
- 4,043Praktikainternships
- 4,044entspanntrelaxed
- 4,045hinterlassento leave (behind)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,041
- The most common German nouns#1,745
- German B2 vocabulary#928
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#445
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.