anstehen

B2 Verb frequency rank #8,178

What anstehen means

Verb

to stand in a queue
to be pending, to be upcoming, to be on the agenda, to be due
to be stuck, to be held up (bei etwas anstehen; chiefly Austrian and southern German)
to protrude
to be too much for (someone) (e.g. of food)

Forms

anstehen · steht an · stand an · hat angestanden

Pronunciation

anstehen in a sentence

Wir mussten an der Kasse lange anstehen.

We had to queue at the checkout for a long time.

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anstehen is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #8,178 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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