die Messlatte
What Messlatte means
Noun
- measuring pole, yardstick, especially a stationary one (e.g. for measuring body height)
- the diagonal bar over which the athlete attempts to jump
- threshold, bar, standard
Forms
die Messlatte · die Messlatten
Plural: Messlatten
Pronunciation
Messlatte in a sentence
An dieser Messlatte ist eingezeichnet, wie stark in welchem Jahr das Hochwasser war.
On this measuring pole there are marks to show how high the flooding was in what year.
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Messlatte is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #11,214 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.