Erwerbsloser
German, noun
Erwerbsloser is spelled E-R-W-E-R-B-S-L-O-S-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written German, the 264,454th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Erwerbsloser is a German masculine noun meaning “unemployed or jobless person (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive/dative singular of Erwerbslose. In lower case, erwerbsloser is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person ohne eine bezahlte, berufliche Tätigkeit”.
What does Erwerbsloser mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineunemployed or jobless 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 eine bezahlte, berufliche Tätigkeit
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 Erwerbsloser
- der Erwerbslose definite nominative
- Erwerbslosen genitive
- Erwerbslose plural
- die Erwerbslosen definite plural
- Erwerbslosem dative singular strong
- des Erwerbslosen genitive singular
- der Erwerbslosen genitive plural
- dem Erwerbslosen dative singular
- den Erwerbslosen dative plural
- ein Erwerbsloser nominative singular
- keine Erwerbslosen nominative plural
- eines Erwerbslosen genitive singular
- keiner Erwerbslosen genitive plural
- einem Erwerbslosen dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Erwerbsloser in German?
Erwerbsloser appears about once in every 21 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).