German business and work vocabulary: 489 words
Office, meetings and business vocabulary for the workplace (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese). This page lists 40 of them with their German translations, then lets you practise the full set in either direction with spaced repetition.
English to German: the first 40 words
| English | German | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| work | Arbeit | |
| job | Job | |
| office | Büro | |
| company | Unternehmen | |
| meeting | Besprechung | |
| boss | Chef | |
| colleague | Kollege | |
| employee | Angestellter | |
| manager | Manager | |
| team | Team | |
| client | Kunde | A business relationship: person/company you provide professional services to. |
| customer | Kunde | |
| project | Projekt | |
| deadline | Frist | |
| report | Bericht | |
| phone call | Anruf | |
| computer | Computer | |
| desk | Schreibtisch | |
| document | Dokument | |
| contract | Vertrag | |
| salary | Gehalt | |
| interview | Vorstellungsgespräch | |
| résumé | Lebenslauf | One-page summary of work history and skills for job applications. |
| experience | Erfahrung | |
| skill | Fähigkeit | |
| career | Karriere | |
| promotion | Beförderung | |
| department | Abteilung | |
| schedule | Zeitplan | |
| appointment | Termin | |
| presentation | Präsentation | |
| customer service | Kundendienst | |
| invoice | Rechnung | |
| budget | Budget | |
| profit | Gewinn | |
| sales | Verkauf | |
| marketing | Marketing | |
| goal | Ziel | |
| task | Aufgabe |
449 more words in the full “Work & Business” library, each aligned across seven languages and scheduled for you by spaced repetition. Add it to your account and start drilling English to German in one click.
What to watch out for in German
- 112 of these 489 words are near-identical in English and German (23%) —
Job,Manager,Team. Those are free; the value of drilling is in the rest. - Accents count. Answers are graded accent-sensitively, so you need
äöüßÄÖÜ— LinguaSwap shows a one-tap keypad for them while you type. - Capitalisation counts. German nouns are capitalised, and answers in German are graded that way —
hausis notHaus. - 143 words carry a usage note in the full library, for the cases where a direct translation would mislead you.
Practise German business and work vocabulary
Words come back just before you would forget them, and every language direction is tracked separately.