German noun, neuter · CEFR B2
das Ehrenamt
Meaning in English: voluntary work, honorary post
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Neben dem Beruf engagiert sie sich im Ehrenamt.
Alongside her job she does voluntary work.
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Ehrenamt is neuter: das Ehrenamt. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Ehrenamt?
Ehrenamt is number 4,596 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 57,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,592Fachkräftenskilled workers
- 4,593die Vergabeallocation, awarding
- 4,594Bemühungenefforts
- 4,595der Stofffabric, material; substance
- 4,596das Ehrenamtvoluntary work, honorary post
- 4,597bundesweitenationwide
- 4,598der Bauerfarmer
- 4,599bergento recover, to rescue; to hold (risks)
- 4,600die Tagungconference, meeting
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- The 5,000 most common German words#4,596
- The most common German nouns#2,007
- German B2 vocabulary#1,122
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#240
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