German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Chefin
Meaning in English: (female) boss
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Jobs in German list.
Example
Meine Chefin ist diese Woche im Urlaub.
My boss is on holiday this week.
Der, die or das?
Chefin is feminine: die Chefin. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Chefin?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Chefin appears 7.7 times per million words — about once every 130,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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