das Personal
Meaning in English: staff, personnel
False friend: Personal is not “personal”. It is a noun: the staff of a company. Personal as an adjective is persönlich. More false friends.
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Das Personal im Restaurant war sehr freundlich.
The staff at the restaurant were very friendly.
Der, die or das?
Personal is neuter: das Personal. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -al are das in 9 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Personal?
Personal is number 1,369 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 67 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,365die Karrierecareer
- 1,366der Staatstate, country
- 1,367vorherbefore, beforehand
- 1,368selbstverständlichof course, naturally
- 1,369das Personalstaff, personnel
- 1,370mittelsby means of
- 1,371Teileparts, pieces
- 1,372der Leiterhead, manager (der); ladder (die)
- 1,373die Umgebungsurroundings, area
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,369
- The most common German nouns#501
- German B1 vocabulary#412
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#60
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.