der Kreis
Meaning in English: circle; district
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Die Kinder sitzen im Kreis auf dem Boden.
The children are sitting in a circle on the floor.
Der, die or das?
Kreis is masculine: der Kreis. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Kreis in the top 5,000
These forms of Kreis are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Alle Schulen des Kreises bleiben morgen geschlossen.
All schools in the district stay closed tomorrow.
How common is Kreis?
Kreis is number 822 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 108 times per million words — about once every 9,200 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Kreis:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 818der Austauschexchange
- 819Anforderungenrequirements, demands
- 820die Sichtview, visibility; point of view
- 821betroffenaffected; dismayed
- 822der Kreiscircle; district
- 823die Teilnahmeparticipation
- 824wichtigermore important
- 825ausschließlichexclusively, solely
- 826miteinanderwith each other, together
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#822
- The 5,000 most common German words#822
- The most common German nouns#269
- German B1 vocabulary#208
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#78
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