noun
engineer
B1
Ingenieur (noun): 'engineer' — a professional in engineering. Masculine in German (der Ingenieur); plural Ingenieure. Note declension: genitive des Ingenieurs, dative plural den Ingenieuren (adds -n in plural cases). Regular occupational noun; female form is Ingenieurin. Common in technical and academic contexts.
Examples
Die Firma suchte einen Ingenieur, der die Maschine reparieren konnte, weil die Produktion stehen geblieben war.
The company looked for an engineer who could repair the machine because production had come to a standstill.
Mein Bruder ist Ingenieur und arbeitet an neuen Maschinen.
My brother is an engineer and works on new machines.
Ich bin Ingenieur.
I am an engineer.
Details
Mnemonics
Imagine a person with blueprints and a hard hat labeled 'Ingenieur'.
Sounds like 'engineer' in English — link the two words directly.
Der Ingenieur — picture a male engineer (or think 'der' = male) to remember the masculine article; the female form is 'Ingenieurin'.
Notes
The feminine form is 'Ingenieurin'. Genitive singular commonly adds -s: des Ingenieurs.