German noun, neuter · CEFR B2

das Business

Meaning in English: business

Rank 2,867 of 5,000noun · dasLevel B2

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Example

Er macht jetzt sein eigenes Business.
He runs his own business now.

Der, die or das?

Business is neuter: das Business. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Business?

Business is number 2,867 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 31 times per million words — about once every 32,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

Next to it in the frequency list

2,863die Republikrepublic
2,864denktthinks
2,865die Reformreform
2,866die Forderungdemand, claim
2,867das Businessbusiness
2,868die Strukturstructure
2,869umgehendeal with, handle (mit)
2,870eignetis suitable (sich)
2,871der Einzelfallindividual case, isolated case

In these word lists

The 5,000 most common German words#2,867
The most common German nouns#1,212
German B2 vocabulary#564
The most common German neuter nouns (das)#145

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