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arbeiten

to work

Ranks #160 by frequency — outside the core hundred, but common in everyday life.

Type
verb
Frequency rank
#160
Per million words
485

In a sentence

Wo arbeitest du?Where do you work?

Conjugation

Present tense of arbeiten, plus the forms you need to talk about the past.

ich — Iarbeite
du — youarbeitest
er/sie/es — he / she / itarbeitet
wir — wearbeiten
ihr — you (plural)arbeitet
sie — theyarbeiten
Perfecthat gearbeitet
Simple pastarbeitete

Forms its perfect tense with haben.

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