das Kind
Meaning in English: child
False friend: Kind is not “kind”. It is a child. Kind as in nice is nett or freundlich. More false friends.
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Als Kind wollte ich Pilot werden.
As a child I wanted to be a pilot.
Der, die or das?
Kind is neuter: das Kind. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Kind in the top 5,000
These forms of Kind are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Kinder sind schon im Bett.
The children are already in bed.
Am Wochenende spiele ich viel mit meinen Kindern.
At weekends I play a lot with my children.
Das Wohl des Kindes steht an erster Stelle.
The child's welfare comes first.
How common is Kind?
Kind is number 427 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 203 times per million words — about once every 4,900 words. Its most frequent form is Kinder (#133).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#427
- The 1,000 most common German words#427
- The 5,000 most common German words#427
- The most common German nouns#87
- German A1 vocabulary#234
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#14
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.