German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Auftrag
Meaning in English: order, assignment, task
Example
Die Firma hat einen großen Auftrag bekommen.
The company has landed a big order.
Der, die or das?
Auftrag is masculine: der Auftrag. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Auftrag?
Auftrag is number 1,100 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 82 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
- 1,096begleitetaccompanied
- 1,097hasthave (you, informal)
- 1,098versuchttried
- 1,099der Berichtreport
- 1,100der Auftragorder, assignment, task
- 1,101ließlet, left, had (done)
- 1,102die SchweizSwitzerland
- 1,103niemandnobody, no one
- 1,104schreibtwrites
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,100
- The most common German nouns#386
- German B1 vocabulary#312
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#108
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.