der Mitarbeiter
Meaning in English: employee, colleague, staff
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Ein Mitarbeiter hilft Ihnen gleich weiter.
A member of staff will help you in a moment.
Der, die or das?
Mitarbeiter is masculine: der Mitarbeiter. 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.
Forms of Mitarbeiter in the top 5,000
These forms of Mitarbeiter are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Der Chef hat allen Mitarbeitern gedankt.
The boss thanked all the staff.
How common is Mitarbeiter?
Mitarbeiter is number 354 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 244 times per million words — about once every 4,100 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 55% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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- The 500 most common German words#354
- The 1,000 most common German words#354
- The 5,000 most common German words#354
- The most common German nouns#64
- German A2 vocabulary#81
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#16
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.