Erster
German, noun
Erster is spelled E-R-S-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears 112 times per million words in written German, the 772nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Erster is a German masculine noun meaning “winner (person in first place) (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive/dative singular of Erste. In lower case, erster is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person, die eine Rang- oder Reihenfolge anführt”.
What does Erster mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewinner (person in first place) (male or of unspecified gender)
noun
- 1
femininestrong genitive/dative singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive plural
number
- 1
masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular
- 3
strong genitive plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Person, die eine Rang- oder Reihenfolge anführt 2. Tag, mit dem ein Monat beginnt
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Erster
- der Erste definite nominative
- Ersten genitive
- Erste plural
- die Ersten definite plural
- Erstem dative singular strong
- des Ersten genitive singular
- der Ersten genitive plural
- dem Ersten dative singular
- den Ersten dative plural
- ein Erster nominative singular
- keine Ersten nominative plural
- eines Ersten genitive singular
- keiner Ersten genitive plural
- einem Ersten dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Erster
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Erster in German?
Erster appears 112 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).