German noun, masculine · CEFR A1

der Job

Meaning in English: job

Rank 1,429 of 5,000noun · derLevel A12 forms in the list

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Example

Sie hat endlich einen neuen Job gefunden.

She has finally found a new job.

Der, die or das?

Job is masculine: der Job. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Job in the top 5,000

These forms of Job are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Jobs#3,486
jobsA2

Im Sommer gibt es viele Jobs für Studenten.
There are lots of jobs for students in summer.

How common is Job?

Job is number 1,429 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 64 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 1,425die Jugendyouth
  2. 1,426heutigentoday's, present-day
  3. 1,427legtlays, puts
  4. 1,428Städtencities, towns (dative)
  5. 1,429der Jobjob
  6. 1,430konkreteconcrete, specific
  7. 1,431die Vorbereitungpreparation
  8. 1,432schauento look, to watch
  9. 1,433Bürgerinnencitizens (female)

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