der Ingenieur
Meaning in English: engineer
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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Mein Bruder arbeitet als Ingenieur bei einer Autofirma.
My brother works as an engineer at a car company.
Der, die or das?
Ingenieur is masculine: der Ingenieur. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -ur are usually die (12 of 14 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Ingenieur?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Ingenieur appears 5.5 times per million words — about once every 180,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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