das Gefängnis
Meaning in English: prison
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Er saß drei Jahre im Gefängnis.
He spent three years in prison.
Der, die or das?
Gefängnis is neuter: das Gefängnis. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -nis are das in 7 of 8 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gefängnis?
Gefängnis is number 3,737 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 44,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,733der Stürmerstriker, forward
- 3,734vermehrtincreasingly, more and more
- 3,735beliebtepopular
- 3,736der Anwaltlawyer
- 3,737das Gefängnisprison
- 3,738Angeklagtendefendant(s) (oblique case, plural)
- 3,739das Kilogrammkilogram
- 3,740Flammenflames
- 3,741höchstensat most, at the most
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,737
- The most common German nouns#1,602
- German B1 vocabulary#1,199
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#194
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.