das Knie
Meaning in English: knee(s)
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Body parts in German list.
Example
Mir tut das linke Knie weh.
My left knee hurts.
Der, die or das?
Knie is neuter: das Knie. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -ie are usually die (20 of 21 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Knie?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Knie appears 13 times per million words — about once every 77,000 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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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.