German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Vater
Meaning in English: father
Example
Mein Vater kocht am Sonntag immer.
My father always cooks on Sundays.
Der, die or das?
Vater is masculine: der Vater. 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 Vater?
Vater is number 1,105 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 82 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,105
- The most common German nouns#388
- German A1 vocabulary#379
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#109
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