German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die GmbH
Meaning in English: limited company (Ltd.)
Example
Mein Onkel hat eine kleine GmbH gegründet.
My uncle has founded a small limited company.
Der, die or das?
GmbH is feminine: die GmbH. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is GmbH?
GmbH is number 622 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 144 times per million words — about once every 7,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 60% 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
- 618brauchtneeds
- 619das Interesseinterest
- 620Ergebnisseresults
- 621Ländercountries
- 622die GmbHlimited company (Ltd.)
- 623die Mittemiddle, centre; mid-
- 624der Vergleichcomparison
- 625Namenname (acc./dat.); names
- 626könnecan, could (reported speech)
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#622
- The 5,000 most common German words#622
- The most common German nouns#170
- German B2 vocabulary#32
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#58
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