erschrecken

B1 Verb frequency rank #7,293

What erschrecken means

Verb

to frighten; to scare (someone)
to be frightened; to be startled

Forms

erschrecken · erschrickt · erschrak · ist erschrocken (+ Akkusativ) | erschrecken · erschreckt · erschreckte · hat erschreckt (+ Akkusativ)

Pronunciation

erschrecken in a sentence

Ich erschrak, als das Telefon plötzlich klingelte.

I was startled when the phone suddenly rang.

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erschrecken is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #7,293 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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