der Kindergarten

A1 Noun frequency rank #2,516

What Kindergarten means

Noun

nursery school; kindergarten; day care center (institution where children below school age play and are looked after during the day)
antics, petty squabbling (behavior considered undignified and unproductive, often antagonistic and cliquish)

Forms

der Kindergarten · die Kindergärten

Plural: Kindergärten

Pronunciation

Kindergarten in a sentence

Haben Sie das im Kindergarten gelernt?

Did you learn that in kindergarten?

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Kindergarten is A1 German — one of the first words a beginner meets, ranked #2,516 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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