der Unternehmer
Meaning in English: entrepreneur(s), business owner(s)
False friend: Unternehmer is not “undertaker”. It is an entrepreneur or business owner. An undertaker is ein Bestatter. More false friends.
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Als Unternehmer hat er kaum freie Wochenenden.
As a business owner he hardly has any free weekends.
Der, die or das?
Unternehmer is masculine: der Unternehmer. 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.
How common is Unternehmer?
Unternehmer is number 2,353 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 38 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,349besserenbetter (inflected)
- 2,350Kandidatencandidates
- 2,351die Ausstattungequipment, furnishings, features
- 2,352erforderlichenrequired, necessary (inflected)
- 2,353der Unternehmerentrepreneur(s), business owner(s)
- 2,354manchensome (inflected)
- 2,355der Busbus
- 2,356der Veranstalterorganiser(s), promoter(s)
- 2,357die Auszeichnungaward, honour; distinction
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,353
- The most common German nouns#975
- German B2 vocabulary#413
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#254
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.