der Kollege
Meaning in English: colleague
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 Kollege hat heute Geburtstag.
It's my colleague's birthday today.
Der, die or das?
Kollege is masculine: der Kollege. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -e are usually die (170 of 193 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Kollege in the top 5,000
Kollege itself is not in the top 5,000, but this form of it is:
Meine Kollegen sind sehr hilfsbereit.
My colleagues are very helpful.
How common is Kollege?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Kollege appears 14 times per million words — about once every 74,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form Kollegen (#975) is in the top 5,000, though.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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