der Arbeitnehmer
Meaning in English: employee
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Jeder Arbeitnehmer hat Anspruch auf Urlaub.
Every employee is entitled to holidays.
Der, die or das?
Arbeitnehmer is masculine: der Arbeitnehmer. 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 Arbeitnehmer?
Arbeitnehmer is number 2,563 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 35 times per million words — about once every 29,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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
- 2,559die Auskunftinformation
- 2,560die Koalitioncoalition
- 2,561geregeltregulated, settled, sorted
- 2,562verlorlost (past)
- 2,563der Arbeitnehmeremployee
- 2,564vorgenommencarried out; resolved (sich)
- 2,565sendensend, broadcast
- 2,566glücklichhappy
- 2,567sicherlichcertainly, surely
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,563
- The most common German nouns#1,070
- German B1 vocabulary#826
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#281
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.