die Marionette

C2 Noun frequency rank #10,608

What Marionette means

Noun

marionette, puppet (puppet which is animated by the pulling of strings)
puppet (person, country, etc, controlled by another)

Forms

die Marionette · die Marionetten

Plural: Marionetten

Pronunciation

Marionette in a sentence

Die Marionetten bewegen sich an dünnen Fäden.

The marionettes move on thin strings.

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Marionette is C2 German — near-native vocabulary, ranked #10,608 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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