Polyglot Dictionary

Krebs

/kʁeːps/

der noun B1

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 Krebse

Meaning

  1. cancer; crab

    • Die Ärzte fanden Krebs.

      The doctors found cancer.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Animate Countability Countable Scope Individual

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English

crab

Close — Krebs means both "cancer" and "crab" in German, like the zodiac sign Cancer.

Practice

1 What does Krebs mean?

2 Fill the gap: Die Ärzte fanden ___.

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