bergen

B2 Verb frequency rank #2,451

What bergen means

Verb

to recover, salvage, rescue; with regard to living beings this can mean dead or alive, for the latter retten is the normal word
to contain, hold, shelter, conceal
to take in, shorten (a sail)

Forms

bergen · birgt · barg · hat geborgen (+ Akkusativ)

Pronunciation

bergen in a sentence

Bei der Ausgrabung wurden mehrere antike Fibeln geborgen.

During the excavation, several ancient fibulae were recovered.

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bergen is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #2,451 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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