die Höflichkeit

B1 Noun frequency rank #7,698

What Höflichkeit means

Noun

courtesy, politeness, courtliness (the state of being polite)
courtesy, politeness (an act of politeness)

Forms

die Höflichkeit · die Höflichkeiten

Plural: Höflichkeiten

Pronunciation

Höflichkeit in a sentence

Ich habe nur aus Höflichkeit gefragt.

I only asked out of politeness.

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Höflichkeit is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #7,698 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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