das Kaninchen
Meaning in English: rabbit
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
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Die Kinder wünschen sich ein Kaninchen.
The children would love a rabbit.
Der, die or das?
Kaninchen is neuter: das Kaninchen. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Kaninchen?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Kaninchen appears 3.9 times per million words — about once every 260,000 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.
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