German noun, feminine · CEFR A1
die Arbeit
Meaning in English: work, job
Example
Nach der Arbeit gehe ich ins Fitnessstudio.
After work I go to the gym.
Der, die or das?
Arbeit is feminine: die Arbeit. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Arbeit?
Arbeit is number 193 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 440 times per million words — about once every 2,300 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 50% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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- German A1 vocabulary#133
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#5
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