German noun, masculine · CEFR B1

der Geschäftsführer

Meaning in English: managing director, CEO

Rank 1,522 of 5,000noun · derLevel B1
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Example

Der Geschäftsführer möchte Sie sprechen.

The managing director would like to speak to you.

Der, die or das?

Geschäftsführer is masculine: der Geschäftsführer. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -er are der in 126 of 160 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Geschäftsführer?

Geschäftsführer is number 1,522 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 61 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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

  1. 1,518Vorgabenrequirements, guidelines
  2. 1,519DeutschGerman (language)
  3. 1,520passtfits, suits, is fine
  4. 1,521die Gelegenheitopportunity, occasion
  5. 1,522der Geschäftsführermanaging director, CEO
  6. 1,523die Landesregierungstate government
  7. 1,524erhöhento raise, to increase
  8. 1,525schriebwrote
  9. 1,526der Vorteiladvantage

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