Polyglot Dictionary

Chronik

/ˈkʁoːnɪk/

die noun C1

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
die Chroniken

Meaning

  1. chronicle

    • Das Buch ist eine Chronik der Stadtgeschichte.

      The book is a chronicle of the city's history.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Geschichte

Chronik is a formal chronicle, a record of events in order; Geschichte is the everyday word for a story (or history in general).

Similar in other languages

Spanish

crónica

crónica is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "chronicle."

Practice

1 What does Chronik mean?

2 Fill the gap: Das Buch ist eine ___ der Stadtgeschichte.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Chronik?

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