German noun, feminine · CEFR C1

die Geschäftsstelle

Meaning in English: office, branch office

Rank 4,221 of 5,000noun · dieLevel C1
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Example

Die Geschäftsstelle ist freitags nur vormittags geöffnet.

The office is only open in the mornings on Fridays.

Der, die or das?

Geschäftsstelle is feminine: die Geschäftsstelle. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Geschäftsstelle?

Geschäftsstelle is number 4,221 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.

Related words in the list

Geschäftsstelle is built from das Geschäft (shop, business, deal) + die Stelle (job, position; place, spot).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 4,217gerietgot (into), ended up
  2. 4,218statistischenstatistical
  3. 4,219Hintergründebackground, reasons (behind sth)
  4. 4,220einzigartigeunique
  5. 4,221die Geschäftsstelleoffice, branch office
  6. 4,222barin cash
  7. 4,223teilgenommentaken part, participated
  8. 4,224der Protestprotest
  9. 4,225scheiternto fail

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