beruflich
Meaning in English: professional, for work
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Ich bin nächste Woche beruflich in Wien.
I'm in Vienna for work next week.
Forms of beruflich in the top 5,000
These forms of beruflich are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Aus beruflichen Gründen ziehen wir nach Köln.
We're moving to Cologne for work reasons.
Sie hat berufliche Gründe für den Umzug.
She has work-related reasons for the move.
How common is beruflich?
beruflich is number 4,029 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 48,000 words. Its most frequent form is beruflichen (#1,458).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,025Gerichtedishes, courts
- 4,026unbekannterunknown, unfamiliar
- 4,027meldetereported
- 4,028kontrollierento check, to control
- 4,029beruflichprofessional, for work
- 4,030befreitfreed, exempt
- 4,031draufon it (colloquial)
- 4,032der Codecode
- 4,033verfügbarenavailable
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,029
- The most common German adjectives#708
- German B1 vocabulary#1,301
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.