der Verteidiger
Meaning in English: defender, defence lawyer
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Der Verteidiger hat den Ball ins eigene Tor geschossen.
The defender kicked the ball into his own goal.
Der, die or das?
Verteidiger is masculine: der Verteidiger. 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 Verteidiger?
Verteidiger is number 4,052 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
- 4,048bewahrento keep, to preserve
- 4,049das Ticketticket
- 4,050Angelegenheitenmatters, affairs
- 4,051geschätztvalued, estimated
- 4,052der Verteidigerdefender, defence lawyer
- 4,053die Versicherunginsurance
- 4,054jüdischeJewish
- 4,055Spielernplayers (dative)
- 4,056zeitlichin terms of time, timewise
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,052
- The most common German nouns#1,750
- German B2 vocabulary#934
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#446
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.