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Kranke

German, noun

Kranke is spelled K-R-A-N-K-E (6 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written German, the 5,473rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kranke is a German feminine noun meaning “female equivalent of Kranker: sick female, female sufferer (from a disease), female patient, female invalid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, kranke is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. On this page, kränke is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “weibliche Person, die krank ist”.

What does Kranke mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininefemale equivalent of Kranker: sick female, female sufferer (from a disease), female patient, female invalid

noun

  1. 1

    masculinestrong nominative/accusative plural

  2. 2

    masculineweak nominative/accusative singular

adjective

as kranke
  1. 1

    femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular

  2. 2

    strong nominative/accusative plural

  3. 3

    weak nominative all-gender singular

  4. 4

    feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular

verb

as kränke
  1. 1

    first-person singular present

  2. 2

    first/third-person singular subjunctive I

  3. 3

    singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. weibliche Person, die krank ist

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of Kranke

  • die Kranke definite nominative
  • Kranker genitive
  • der Kranken definite genitive
  • die Kranken definite plural
  • Kranken dative plural strong
  • den Kranken dative plural
  • eine Kranke nominative singular
  • keine Kranken nominative plural
  • einer Kranken genitive singular
  • keiner Kranken genitive plural
  • keinen Kranken dative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to Kranke

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Kranke in German?

Kranke appears 13 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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