German noun, neuter · CEFR A1

das Krankenhaus

Meaning in English: hospital

Rank 855 of 5,000noun · dasLevel A13 forms in the list
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Example

Opa liegt seit gestern im Krankenhaus.

Grandad has been in hospital since yesterday.

Der, die or das?

Krankenhaus is neuter: das Krankenhaus. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Krankenhaus in the top 5,000

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

Krankenhäuser#2,942
hospitalsA2

Viele Krankenhäuser suchen dringend Pflegekräfte.
Many hospitals urgently need nurses.

Krankenhäusern#3,982
hospitals (dative)A2

In vielen Krankenhäusern fehlt Personal.
Many hospitals are short of staff.

How common is Krankenhaus?

Krankenhaus is number 855 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 103 times per million words — about once every 9,700 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

Related words in the list

Krankenhaus is built from krank (ill, sick) + das Haus (house; building).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 851eingesetztused, deployed
  2. 852die Liebelove
  3. 853schreibenwrite
  4. 854arbeitetworks
  5. 855das Krankenhaushospital
  6. 856der Artikelarticle
  7. 857genommentaken
  8. 858die Auswahlselection, choice
  9. 859entsprechendencorresponding, relevant

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