German noun, masculine · CEFR B1

der Arbeitgeber

Meaning in English: employer

Rank 1,046 of 5,000noun · derLevel B1
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Example

Mein Arbeitgeber bezahlt mir das Jobticket.

My employer pays for my travel pass.

Der, die or das?

Arbeitgeber is masculine: der Arbeitgeber. 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 Arbeitgeber?

Arbeitgeber is number 1,046 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 86 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 1,042funktioniertworks, functions
  2. 1,043der Anteilshare, proportion
  3. 1,044denkento think
  4. 1,045der Kopfhead
  5. 1,046der Arbeitgeberemployer
  6. 1,047angesichtsin view of, given
  7. 1,048welcherwhich
  8. 1,049geführtled, run, guided
  9. 1,050der Überblickoverview

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