der Krieg
Meaning in English: war
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Mein Großvater hat nie über den Krieg gesprochen.
My grandfather never talked about the war.
Der, die or das?
Krieg is masculine: der Krieg. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Krieg in the top 5,000
These forms of Krieg are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Das Buch erzählt vom Ende des Krieges.
The book tells of the end of the war.
How common is Krieg?
Krieg is number 897 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 98 times per million words — about once every 10,000 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 Krieg:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 893wählenchoose; vote; dial
- 894Cookiescookies (web); biscuits
- 895das Auslandabroad, foreign countries
- 896Chancenchances, opportunities
- 897der Kriegwar
- 898größtebiggest, largest
- 899das Opfervictim; sacrifice
- 900die Hälftehalf
- 901die Techniktechnology, technique
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#897
- The 5,000 most common German words#897
- The most common German nouns#303
- German B1 vocabulary#231
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#84
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.