Arbeitsloser
German, noun
Arbeitsloser is spelled A-R-B-E-I-T-S-L-O-S-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 51,196th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arbeitsloser is a German masculine noun meaning “unemployed person (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive/dative singular of Arbeitslose. In lower case, arbeitsloser is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person ohne einen Arbeitsplatz oder Anstellung”.
What does Arbeitsloser mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineunemployed person (male or of unspecified gender)
noun
- 1
femininestrong genitive/dative singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive plural
adjective
- 1
masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular
- 3
strong genitive plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Person ohne einen Arbeitsplatz oder Anstellung
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Arbeitsloser
- der Arbeitslose definite nominative
- Arbeitslosen genitive
- Arbeitslose plural
- die Arbeitslosen definite plural
- Arbeitslosem dative singular strong
- des Arbeitslosen genitive singular
- der Arbeitslosen genitive plural
- dem Arbeitslosen dative singular
- den Arbeitslosen dative plural
- ein Arbeitsloser nominative singular
- keine Arbeitslosen nominative plural
- eines Arbeitslosen genitive singular
- keiner Arbeitslosen genitive plural
- einem Arbeitslosen dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Arbeitsloser in German?
Arbeitsloser appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).