der Handwerker
Meaning in English: tradesman, craftsman
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Jobs in German list.
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Morgen kommt ein Handwerker und repariert die Heizung.
Tomorrow a tradesman is coming to fix the heating.
Der, die or das?
Handwerker is masculine: der Handwerker. 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 Handwerker?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Handwerker appears 15 times per million words — about once every 68,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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