German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Kino
Meaning in English: cinema, movies
Example
Gehen wir heute Abend ins Kino?
Shall we go to the cinema tonight?
Der, die or das?
Kino is neuter: das Kino. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -o are das in 13 of 14 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Kino?
Kino is number 3,544 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 42,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,540die Amtszeitterm of office
- 3,541die Notwendigkeitnecessity, need
- 3,542betragento amount to, to be
- 3,543die Expertiseexpertise; expert opinion
- 3,544das Kinocinema, movies
- 3,545die Tabelletable, chart; league table
- 3,546zeitnahpromptly, soon
- 3,547aufbauento set up, to build up
- 3,548musikalischemusical
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,544
- The most common German nouns#1,512
- German A1 vocabulary#686
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#187
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.