German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Krebs
Meaning in English: cancer, crab
Example
Rauchen erhöht das Risiko für Krebs.
Smoking increases the risk of cancer.
Der, die or das?
Krebs is masculine: der Krebs. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Krebs?
Krebs is number 4,247 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,243langemlong (dative, as in seit langem)
- 4,244die Distanzdistance
- 4,245eueryour (plural, informal)
- 4,246der Empfangreception, signal
- 4,247der Krebscancer, crab
- 4,248der Ersatzreplacement, substitute
- 4,249die Berufsausbildungvocational training
- 4,250die Spannungsuspense, tension, voltage
- 4,251drininside, in it (colloquial)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,247
- The most common German nouns#1,843
- German B1 vocabulary#1,381
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#471
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