drohen

A2 Verb frequency rank #3,667

What drohen means

Verb

to threaten
to loom, to be able to happen in the future [with dative ‘to someone’] (of negative events or consequences, often expressed in English as "there is a risk of...")
to be in danger of something, to be on the verge of something, to threaten

Forms

drohen · droht · drohte · hat gedroht (+ Akkusativ; mit + Dativ)

Pronunciation

drohen in a sentence

Sie drohte den Jugendlichen mit der Polizei.

She threatened the youths with the police.

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drohen is A2 German — still elementary vocabulary, ranked #3,667 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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