das Handwerk
Meaning in English: craft, trade; skilled trades
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Im Handwerk werden dringend Azubis gesucht.
The skilled trades are urgently looking for apprentices.
Der, die or das?
Handwerk is neuter: das Handwerk. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Handwerk?
Handwerk is number 2,253 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Handwerk is built from die Hand (hand) + das Werk (work, factory).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,249Anwendungenapplications, uses
- 2,250das Hotelhotel
- 2,251eingeführtintroduced; imported
- 2,252frühereformer, earlier (inflected)
- 2,253das Handwerkcraft, trade; skilled trades
- 2,254vorabin advance, beforehand
- 2,255schlägthits, beats; suggests (vor-)
- 2,256dauernto last, to take (time)
- 2,257der Vordergrundforeground
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,253
- The most common German nouns#931
- German B2 vocabulary#384
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#119
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.