Kindergarten
German, noun
Kindergarten is spelled K-I-N-D-E-R-G-A-R-T-E-N (12 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written German, the 4,114th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kindergarten is a German masculine noun meaning “nursery school; kindergarten; day care center (institution where children below school age play and are looked after during the day)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Kindergärten is a different word: “plural of Kindergarten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Ort, an dem Kinder vor dem schulpflichtigen Alter betreut und gefördert werden”.
What does Kindergarten mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenursery school; kindergarten; day care center (institution where children below school age play and are looked after during the day)
- 2
colloquialderogatorymasculineantics, petty squabbling (behavior considered undignified and unproductive, often antagonistic and cliquish)
noun
- 1
plural of Kindergarten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ort, an dem Kinder vor dem schulpflichtigen Alter betreut und gefördert werden
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 Kindergarten
- Kindergartens genitive
- Kindergärten plural
- Kiga alternative informal short-form
- KiGa alternative informal short-form
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Kindergarten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Kindergarten in German?
Kindergarten appears 19 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).