German noun, feminine · CEFR A2

die Kita

Meaning in English: daycare, nursery (Kindertagesstätte)

Rank 2,278 of 5,000noun · dieLevel A22 forms in the list
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Example

Ich hole die Kleine heute von der Kita ab.

I'm picking the little one up from nursery today.

Der, die or das?

Kita is feminine: die Kita. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Kita in the top 5,000

These forms of Kita are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Kitas#2,859
daycare centres, nurseriesB1

In vielen Kitas fehlen Erzieherinnen.
Many nurseries are short of staff.

How common is Kita?

Kita is number 2,278 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,274Einblickeinsights, glimpses
  2. 2,275der Ansatzapproach; beginning
  3. 2,276gehabthad (past participle)
  4. 2,277warntwarns
  5. 2,278die Kitadaycare, nursery (Kindertagesstätte)
  6. 2,279ergibtresults in, yields; makes (sense)
  7. 2,280falschwrong, false
  8. 2,281lokalenlocal (inflected)
  9. 2,282Werkeworks; plants, factories

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