Fahrkunst
German, noun/ˈfaːɐ̯ˌkʊnst/
Fahrkunst is spelled F-A-H-R-K-U-N-S-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written German, the 297,534th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fahrkunst is a German feminine noun meaning “man engine (mechanical lift for raising and lowering people through considerable distances; specifically, a device by which miners ascend…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Fähigkeit, ein Fahrzeug geschickt zu steuern”.
What does Fahrkunst mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineman engine (mechanical lift for raising and lowering people through considerable distances; specifically, a device by which miners ascend or descend in a shaft, consisting of a series of landings or sollars in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings; a person steps from a landing to a shelf and
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fähigkeit, ein Fahrzeug geschickt zu steuern
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Fahrkunst
- Fahrkünste plural
- Fahrkünsten dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Fahrkunst?
- /ˈfaːɐ̯ˌkʊnst/
- [ˈfaːɐ̯ˌkʊnst]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Fahrkunst in German?
Fahrkunst appears about once in every 26 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).