Mitarbeiter

German Etymology de :af mit- Arbeiter de mit Arbeiter Pronunciation de /ˈmɪtarˌbaɪ̯tər/ [ˈmɪ.taʁˌbaɪ̯.tɐ] [-taɐ̯-] [-tɐ-] usual de /ˈmɪtˌarbaɪ̯tər/ [ˈmɪtˌʔaʁ.baɪ̯.tɐ] very formal or regional de De-Mitarbeiter.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun m in employee person who works, together with others, in a particular business or institution collaborator person who works with others towards a common goal assistant person who assists another person in a business staff member de Dozenten und Mitarbeiter faculty and staff [at a university] Usage notes Mitarbeiter is a semantic false friend of en coworker: although it is made up of elements that mean "co-" and "worker", Mitarbeiter means something more like "employee", not quite "coworker" (which in German is de Kollege): you would typically say that a Firma has several Mitarbeiter rather than that you (working at the firm) have several Mitarbeiter, whereas in English, you have coworkers at the company, the company does not normally have coworkers. Declension m Synonyms de Angestellter de Arbeitnehmer de Firmenangehöriger Derived terms de Mitarbeiterführung de Mitarbeitermotivation de Mitarbeiterversammlung Further reading de