das Gegenlicht

B2 Noun frequency rank #12,343

What Gegenlicht means

Noun

backlight, light coming from behind the subject

Forms

Noun · das

Pronunciation

Gegenlicht in a sentence

Im Gegenlicht wirken die Blätter fast durchsichtig.

In backlight the leaves look almost transparent.

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Gegenlicht is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #12,343 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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