das Lehen

B1 Noun frequency rank #9,014

What Lehen means

Noun

feud or fief (estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord)

Forms

das Lehen · die Lehen

Plural: Lehen

Pronunciation

Lehen in a sentence

Der Ritter bekam vom König ein Lehen im Süden.

The knight received a fief in the south from the king.

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Lehen is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #9,014 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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