German noun, neuter · CEFR B1

das Unternehmen

Meaning in English: company, business; undertaking

Rank 132 of 5,000noun · dasLevel B12 forms in the list
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Example

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:

Unternehmens#1,390
of the company (genitive)B1

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

  1. 128Jahreyears
  2. 129dennbecause; then (in questions)
  3. 130ohnewithout
  4. 131obwhether, if
  5. 132das Unternehmencompany, business; undertaking
  6. 133Kinderchildren
  7. 134neuennew
  8. 135seinerhis, its (dat./gen. fem.)
  9. 136unsereour

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