Feminine
Arbeit
Denn der Arbeitnehmer ist eigentlich derjenige 👨 , der Arbeit gibt .
👨
Because the employee is actually the one who gives work.
- (countable, feminine, uncountable) toil, regularly performed work, regularly pursued economic activity, labor, job, employment, occupation
- (countable, feminine, uncountable) job, task, assignment
- (countable, feminine, uncountable) effort, work, human expenditure
- (countable, feminine, uncountable) performance, workmanship, work, the result of effort that might consist in a product or performance itself depending on what is owed
- (countable, feminine, uncountable) work, energy transmitted by force through a body
Frequency
Dialects
Zürich
arbeit
Aargau
büez
Appenzell Innerrhoden
arbeit
Appenzell Innerrhoden
arbet
Basel-Landschaft
aarbed
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈaʁbaɪ̯t/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German arbeit, from Old High German arbeit, from Proto-West Germanic *arbaiþi, from Proto-Germanic *arbaidiz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos (“orphan, servant, slave”), from which English orphan is also derived. Cognate with Yiddish אַרבעט (arbet), Old English earfoþe.
Related words
actual work
Ausarbeitung
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