German noun, neuter · CEFR A1

das Schlafzimmer

Meaning in English: bedroom

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · dasLevel A1

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Rooms and furniture in German list.

Learn this word

Add das Schlafzimmer to your reviews. Progress stays in this browser.

Test my vocabulary

Example

Unser Schlafzimmer liegt zum Garten hin.

Our bedroom faces the garden.

Der, die or das?

Schlafzimmer is neuter: das Schlafzimmer. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Schlafzimmer?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Schlafzimmer appears 7.5 times per million words — about once every 130,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.

A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

Related words in the list

Schlafzimmer is built from der Schlaf (sleep) + das Zimmer (room).

House and home: more words

All 32 words: Rooms and furniture in German

In these word lists

Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.