Polyglot Dictionary

Lehrer

/ˈleːʁɐ/

der noun A1

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
die Lehrer
feminine
die Lehrerin

Meaning

  1. teacher

N Category Person Concreteness Concrete Animacy Animate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Professor

A Lehrer teaches at school, at any level. Professor is reserved for university faculty — using it for a schoolteacher would sound like a joke or a mistake.

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

professor

professor is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "teacher."

Practice

1 What does Lehrer mean?

2 Fill the gap: Unser ___ erklärt die Grammatik sehr gut.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Lehrer?

See also

nouncore-vocabulary

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