German noun, feminine · CEFR B1

die Krankenversicherung

Meaning in English: health insurance

Rank 4,602 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B1
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Example

Die Krankenversicherung übernimmt die Kosten.

The health insurance covers the costs.

Der, die or das?

Krankenversicherung is feminine: die Krankenversicherung. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ung are die in 224 of 226 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Krankenversicherung?

Krankenversicherung is number 4,602 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 57,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Related words in the list

Krankenversicherung is built from krank (ill, sick) + die Versicherung (insurance).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 4,598der Bauerfarmer
  2. 4,599bergento recover, to rescue; to hold (risks)
  3. 4,600die Tagungconference, meeting
  4. 4,601der Einbruchburglary; collapse, onset
  5. 4,602die Krankenversicherunghealth insurance
  6. 4,603die Verfügbarkeitavailability
  7. 4,604gewünschtwished, desired
  8. 4,605das Badenbathing, swimming
  9. 4,606mitteiltinforms, lets know

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