Vokabahn

knapp

B1 Adjective / Adverb frequency rank #701

What knapp means

Adjective

  1. scarce
  2. lean (having little extra)
  3. somewhat less (than)
  4. short or tight

Adverb

  1. narrowly, just, barely
  2. somewhat less than, almost

Forms

Adjective | Adverb

Pronunciation

knapp in a sentence

Das war knapp. Wir wären fast abgestürzt!

That was close. We nearly crashed!

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knapp is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #701 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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