German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Enkelin
Meaning in English: granddaughter
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Family members in German list.
Example
Seine Enkelin ist gerade drei geworden.
His granddaughter has just turned three.
Der, die or das?
Enkelin is feminine: die Enkelin. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Enkelin?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Enkelin appears 1.9 times per million words — about once every 530,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Family: more words
- die Familiefamily
- die Elternparents
- die Muttermother
- der Vaterfather
- das Kindchild
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- die Tochterdaughter
- der Bruderbrother
- die Schwestersister; nurse
- die Geschwistersiblings, brothers and sisters
- die Großelterngrandparents
- die Großmuttergrandmother
- der Großvatergrandfather
- die Omagrandma, granny
- der Opagrandpa, grandad
- der Enkelgrandson; grandchild
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