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das Heim

B1 Noun frequency rank #1,927

What Heim means

Noun

  1. home, one’s dwelling, the place where one is at home
  2. a home, asylum, hostel (residence for some specified group)
  3. without further context usually short for either Kinderheim (“children’s home, orphanage”) or Altersheim (“retirement home”)
  4. a house, center for a collective purpose other than to dwell in

Forms

das Heim · die Heime

Plural: Heime

Pronunciation

Heim in a sentence

Das Heim bietet Platz für fünfzig Bewohner.

The care home has room for fifty residents.

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Heim is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #1,927 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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