die Kenntnis
Meaning in English: knowledge, awareness
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Davon hatte ich leider keine Kenntnis.
Unfortunately I had no knowledge of that.
Der, die or das?
Kenntnis is feminine: die Kenntnis. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -nis are usually das (7 of 8 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Kenntnis in the top 5,000
These forms of Kenntnis are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Für die Stelle brauchen Sie gute Kenntnisse in Excel.
You need good Excel skills for the job.
How common is Kenntnis?
Kenntnis is number 2,790 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 32 times per million words — about once every 31,000 words. Its most frequent form is Kenntnisse (#2,195).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,786ersetzenreplace
- 2,787lokalelocal
- 2,788Vorsitzenderchairman, chair
- 2,789der BundesratFederal Council (upper house)
- 2,790die Kenntnisknowledge, awareness
- 2,791die Identitätidentity
- 2,792das Bundesministeriumfederal ministry
- 2,793umzusetzento implement, put into practice
- 2,794absolutabsolutely
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,790
- The most common German nouns#1,169
- German C1 vocabulary#114
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#388
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.