krebs

See also: Krebs and krebs'

Danish

Etymology

From German Krebs (“crab, cancer”), from Middle High German krebz, from Old High German krebiz, from Proto-West Germanic *krabit, from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz. Danish kræft (“cancer”) is borrowed from the Low German form of this word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʰʁ̥ab̥s], [ˈkʰʁ̥ɑb̥s]

Noun

krebs c (singular definite krebsen, plural indefinite krebs)

1. crayfish
2. Cancer (someone with a Cancer star sign)

Inflection

Declension of krebs

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	krebs	krebsen	krebs	krebsene
genitive	krebs'	krebsens	krebs'	krebsenes

See also

• krebs on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da