die Krise
Meaning in English: crisis
Add die Krise and its 1 form to your reviews. Progress stays in this browser.
Test my vocabularyExample
Die Firma steckt in einer tiefen Krise.
The company is in a deep crisis.
Der, die or das?
Krise is feminine: die Krise. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Krise in the top 5,000
These forms of Krise are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Gemeinsam haben wir schon viele Krisen überstanden.
Together we've already come through many crises.
How common is Krise?
Krise is number 1,651 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 56 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,647Zeugenwitnesses
- 1,648Erwachseneadults
- 1,649der Verbraucherconsumer(s)
- 1,650die Stimmungmood, atmosphere
- 1,651die Krisecrisis
- 1,652ukrainischeUkrainian
- 1,653erlebtexperienced
- 1,654das Feuerfire
- 1,655bewerbento apply (for)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,651
- The most common German nouns#649
- German B1 vocabulary#516
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#222
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.