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der Ernst

B1 Noun frequency rank #375

What Ernst means

Noun

  1. earnestness, seriousness
  2. a serious statement, a seriously meant action

Forms

der Ernst · no common plural

Pronunciation

Ernst in a sentence

Langsam glaube ich, es ist nicht dein Ernst.

I'm slowly beginning to think that you're not serious.

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Ernst is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #375 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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