Vokabahn

der Bube

B1 Noun frequency rank #11,662

What Bube means

Noun

  1. knave; jack (playing card)
  2. boy; lad
  3. rogue; villain; naughty boy

Forms

der Bube · die Buben

Plural: Buben

Pronunciation

Bube in a sentence

Ich hatte nur noch den Buben auf der Hand.

I only had the jack left in my hand.

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Bube is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #11,662 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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