Polyglot Dictionary

Kreis

/kʁaɪ̯s/

der noun A2

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

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
die Kreise

Meaning

  1. circle

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Kreisverkehr

Close — a roundabout is literally circle-shaped.

Similar in other languages

French

cercle

cercle is the French word for the same thing — both mean "circle."

Portuguese

círculo

círculo is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "circle."

Practice

1 What does Kreis mean?

2 Fill the gap: Die Kinder stellten sich in einen ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Kreis?

nouncore-vocabulary

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