Word Frequency (Worthäufigkeit) #22
Word (Wort)

er

Translation (Übersetzung) he
Pronunciation (Aussprache) /eːɐ/
A1
Pronouns
Beginner
Neutral
Tags (Tags)
grammar masculine most-common pronoun personal
Third person singular masculine personal pronoun. Twenty-second most frequent word in German.

Examples (Beispiele)

Er ist groß.
He is tall.
describing person
Ich sehe ihn.
I see him.
accusative object
Der Tisch ist alt. Er ist braun.
The table is old. It is brown.
referring to masculine noun
Ich gebe ihm das Buch.
I give him the book.
dative indirect object

Usage & Related Words (Verwendung & verwandte Wörter)

Collocations (Kollokationen)
er ist
he is
High frequency
er hat
he has
High frequency
er geht
he goes
High frequency

Semantically Related Words (Semantisch verwandte Wörter)

sie es der Pronomen

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