kriminal
German, adjective/kʁimiˈnaːl/
kriminal is spelled K-R-I-M-I-N-A-L (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 65,066th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kriminal is a German adjective meaning “criminal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “„strafrechtlich“”.
What does kriminal mean in English?
adjective
- 1
criminal
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
prefix: 1. „das Strafrecht, das Vergehen oder den Täter betreffend“
adjective: 1. „strafrechtlich“
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 kriminal
- kriminaler masculine nominative singular
- kriminale feminine nominative singular
- kriminales neuter nominative singular
- kriminalen genitive masculine singular
- kriminalem dative masculine singular
- der kriminale definite includes-article masculine
- die kriminale definite feminine includes-article
- das kriminale definite includes-article neuter
- die kriminalen definite includes-article nominative
- des kriminalen definite genitive includes-article
- der kriminalen definite feminine genitive
- dem kriminalen dative definite includes-article
- den kriminalen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kriminal?
- /kʁimiˈnaːl/
- [kʁimiˈnaːl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is kriminal in German?
kriminal appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).