German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Kritik
Meaning in English: criticism; review
Example
Er kann mit Kritik nicht gut umgehen.
He doesn't handle criticism well.
Der, die or das?
Kritik is feminine: die Kritik. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ik are die in 11 of 12 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Kritik?
Kritik is number 884 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 100 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. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 880ersterfirst
- 881IsraelIsrael
- 882die Lösungsolution
- 883der Siegvictory, win
- 884die Kritikcriticism; review
- 885fälltfalls; (schwer) is hard
- 886stetsalways, constantly
- 887Hochschulenuniversities, colleges
- 888gesamteentire, whole
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#884
- The 5,000 most common German words#884
- The most common German nouns#295
- German B2 vocabulary#92
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#102
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