German noun, feminine · CEFR C1
die Haft
Meaning in English: imprisonment, custody
Example
Er wurde zu zwei Jahren Haft verurteilt.
He was sentenced to two years in prison.
Der, die or das?
Haft is feminine: die Haft. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Haft?
Haft is number 3,654 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,650gezahltpaid
- 3,651verschobenpostponed; moved
- 3,652erzeugtproduced, generated
- 3,653gehandeltacted; traded
- 3,654die Haftimprisonment, custody
- 3,655französischeFrench
- 3,656der Siegerwinner
- 3,657stehendenstanding, stationary
- 3,658kochento cook; to boil
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,654
- The most common German nouns#1,565
- German C1 vocabulary#211
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#513
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