das Werk
Meaning in English: work, factory
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Mein Vater arbeitet im Werk am Hafen.
My father works at the plant by the harbour.
Der, die or das?
Werk is neuter: das Werk. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Werk in the top 5,000
These forms of Werk are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Im Museum hängen Werke von Picasso.
There are works by Picasso in the museum.
Das Museum zeigt Bilder aus allen Werken des Malers.
The museum shows pictures from all the painter's works.
How common is Werk?
Werk is number 1,772 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 52 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Werk:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,768sitzento sit
- 1,769sichtbarvisible
- 1,770die Ausgabeedition, issue; expense
- 1,771extremextreme(ly)
- 1,772das Werkwork, factory
- 1,773die Umfragesurvey, poll
- 1,774gesuchtsearched, looked for; wanted
- 1,775vorgehento proceed, to act; to go ahead
- 1,776Angehörigenrelatives, family members
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,772
- The most common German nouns#704
- German B1 vocabulary#564
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#93
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.