Work
"Work" in German
Arbeit
(labour, employment, occupation, job)
Arbeit
(place where one is employed)
Arbeit
(effort expended on a particular task)
Arbeit
(physics: measure of energy expended in moving an object)
Arbeit
(thermodynamics: energy in transit between one form or repository and another)
Werk
(literary, artistic, or intellectual production)
arbeiten
(to do a specific task)
funktionieren
(to function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for)
wirken
(to function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.