die Krankenkasse
Meaning in English: health insurance fund
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Die Rechnung schicke ich an meine Krankenkasse.
I'll send the bill to my health insurance.
Der, die or das?
Krankenkasse is feminine: die Krankenkasse. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Krankenkasse in the top 5,000
These forms of Krankenkasse are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Nicht alle Krankenkassen zahlen diese Behandlung.
Not all health insurers pay for this treatment.
How common is Krankenkasse?
Krankenkasse is number 3,427 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 41,000 words. Its most frequent form is Krankenkassen (#3,398).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Krankenkasse is built from krank (ill, sick) + die Kasse (till, checkout; health insurer).
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,427
- The most common German nouns#1,452
- German B1 vocabulary#1,108
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#474
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