abwarten

B1 Verb frequency rank #3,144

What abwarten means

Verb

to await; to wait for
to wait and see (await the course of events before taking action)
to wait through (until the end)
to wait around, to be patient

Forms

abwarten · wartet ab · wartete ab · hat abgewartet (+ Akkusativ)

Pronunciation

abwarten in a sentence

Unser Zug muss noch die Ankunft eines anderen Zuges abwarten.

Our train still needs to wait for the arrival of another train.

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abwarten is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #3,144 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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