Polyglot Dictionary

Katastrophe

/kataˈstʁoːfə/

die noun B2

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

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
die Katastrophen

Meaning

  1. catastrophe

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Unheil

Close synonyms for a terrible event; Katastrophe is the everyday word for a catastrophe, Unheil is more literary, "disaster" or "doom."

Tragödie

Katastrophe is a sudden disastrous event; Tragödie is a tragedy, which carries a sense of dramatic, often fateful sorrow (and is also the literal word for a tragic stage play).

Similar in other languages

Spanish

catástrofe

catástrofe is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "catastrophe."

Portuguese

catástrofe

catástrofe is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "catastrophe."

Practice

1 What does Katastrophe mean?

2 Fill the gap: Die Überschwemmung war eine ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Katastrophe?

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