Verb

abschleppen

to tow; to tow away (a car etc.)

B1 rank #11,202

Meanings

Verb

to tow; to tow away (a car etc.)
to pick up (a person in a pub etc.)

In a sentence

Mein Auto wurde abgeschleppt, weil ich im Halteverbot geparkt hatte.

My car was towed away because I had parked in a no-stopping zone.

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Forms

abschleppen · schleppt ab · schleppte ab · hat abgeschleppt (+ Akkusativ)

abschleppen is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #11,202 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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