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die Box

B1 Noun frequency rank #2,293

What Box means

Noun

  1. box (cuboid container); but not as widely used as in English in formal language, perhaps most common for plastic boxes
  2. loudspeaker (box-like encasing containing one or more loudspeaker devices)
  3. a stall for a horse (compartment in a stable); not used for a horsebox, which is Pferdeanhänger
  4. pit (area for refueling and repairing)

Forms

die Box · die Boxen

Plural: Boxen

Pronunciation

Box in a sentence

Wie hast du die Box geöffnet?

How did you open the box?

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Box is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #2,293 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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