German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Krone
Meaning in English: crown
Example
Die Königin trug eine goldene Krone.
The queen wore a golden crown.
Der, die or das?
Krone is feminine: die Krone. 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.
How common is Krone?
Krone is number 4,680 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 58,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,676heiligenholy, sacred
- 4,677Praxenpractices, surgeries
- 4,678Nutzerinnenusers (female)
- 4,679pünktlichpunctual, on time
- 4,680die Kronecrown
- 4,681Landkreisendistricts
- 4,682jahrelangfor years
- 4,683die Einstufungclassification, placement, grading
- 4,684persönlicherpersonal
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,680
- The most common German nouns#2,048
- German B2 vocabulary#1,148
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#670
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.