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der Gegenstand

B1 Noun frequency rank #2,950

What Gegenstand means

Noun

  1. object, item, thing, article
  2. subject, topic
  3. in the technical language of civil law statutes, either a corporeal object or a subjective right
  4. more broadly, since law of obligations lacks a numerus clausus, an object of agreement, that which is the deal

Forms

der Gegenstand · die Gegenstände

Plural: Gegenstände

Pronunciation

Gegenstand in a sentence

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Gegenstand is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #2,950 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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