das Unternehmen
Meaning in English: company, business; undertaking
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Sie arbeitet für ein kleines Unternehmen.
She works for a small company.
Der, die or das?
Unternehmen is neuter: das Unternehmen. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Unternehmen in the top 5,000
These forms of Unternehmen are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Der Sitz des Unternehmens ist in München.
The company's headquarters are in Munich.
How common is Unternehmen?
Unternehmen is number 132 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 664 times per million words — about once every 1,500 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 47% 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
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#132
- The 1,000 most common German words#132
- The 5,000 most common German words#132
- The most common German nouns#10
- German B1 vocabulary#9
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#3
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.