German noun, masculine · CEFR A2

der Verkäufer

Meaning in English: seller, salesperson

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · derLevel A2

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Jobs in German list.

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Example

Der Verkäufer hat mich gut beraten.

The salesman gave me good advice.

Der, die or das?

Verkäufer is masculine: der Verkäufer. 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 Verkäufer?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Verkäufer appears 13 times per million words — about once every 76,000 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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