die Krankheit
Meaning in English: illness, disease
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Wegen Krankheit fällt der Unterricht heute aus.
Class is cancelled today due to illness.
Der, die or das?
Krankheit is feminine: die Krankheit. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -heit are die in 11 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Krankheit in the top 5,000
These forms of Krankheit are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Viele Krankheiten kann man heute gut behandeln.
Many diseases can be treated well today.
How common is Krankheit?
Krankheit is number 2,076 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 44 times per million words — about once every 23,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,072die Erkrankungillness, disease
- 2,073die Therapietherapy, treatment
- 2,074gelangsucceeded, managed (past)
- 2,075der Wandelchange, transformation
- 2,076die Krankheitillness, disease
- 2,077der Unterschieddifference
- 2,078der Nachweisproof, evidence, certificate
- 2,079viertenfourth (inflected)
- 2,080Beziehungenrelationships, relations
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,076
- The most common German nouns#842
- German A2 vocabulary#478
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#278
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.