der Beruf
Meaning in English: profession, job
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Was sind Sie von Beruf?
What do you do for a living?
Der, die or das?
Beruf is masculine: der Beruf. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Beruf in the top 5,000
These forms of Beruf are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Welche Berufe haben eure Eltern?
What do your parents do for a living?
How common is Beruf?
Beruf is number 969 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 92 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Words built on Beruf:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 965die Reiherow, series; turn
- 966internationalinternational(ly)
- 967die Aktioncampaign, action; special offer
- 968gemäßaccording to, in line with
- 969der Berufprofession, job
- 970welcheswhich (neuter)
- 971Gemeindenmunicipalities, communities
- 972richtigeright, correct
- 973der Graddegree
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#969
- The 5,000 most common German words#969
- The most common German nouns#336
- German A1 vocabulary#351
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#89
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.