Kriminalroman
German, noun/kʁimiˈnaːlʁoˌmaːn/
Kriminalroman is spelled K-R-I-M-I-N-A-L-R-O-M-A-N (13 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 43,091st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kriminalroman is a German masculine noun meaning “whodunit, crime novel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Genre der Literatur, das in der Regel ein Verbrechen und seine Verfolgung und Aufklärung durch die Polizei…”.
What does Kriminalroman mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewhodunit, crime novel
- 2
masculinecrime fiction
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre der Literatur, das in der Regel ein Verbrechen und seine Verfolgung und Aufklärung durch die Polizei, einen Detektiv oder eine Privatperson behandelt 2. ein konkreter Roman aus der Literaturgattung Kriminalroman
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 Kriminalroman
- Kriminalromans genitive
- Kriminalromane plural
- Kriminalromanen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Kriminalroman?
- /kʁimiˈnaːlʁoˌmaːn/
- [kʁimiˈnaːlʁoˌmaːn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Kriminalroman
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Kriminalroman in German?
Kriminalroman appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).