Vokabahn

die Not

B1 Noun frequency rank #1,224

What Not means

Noun

  1. need, imminence
  2. necessity, poverty
  3. emergency, crisis

Forms

die Not · die Nöte

Plural: Nöte

Pronunciation

Not in a sentence

In ihrer Not bat sie die Nachbarn um Hilfe.

In her distress, she asked the neighbours for help.

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Not is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #1,224 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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