das Heck

B1 Noun frequency rank #5,810

What Heck means

Noun

stern (of a ship)
tail (of an aeroplane)
back (of a car)

Forms

das Heck · die Hecks

Plural: Hecks

Pronunciation

Heck in a sentence

Wir saßen am Heck und blickten auf das Wasser.

We sat at the stern and looked out over the water.

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Heck is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #5,810 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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