scheitern

B2 Verb frequency rank #2,546

What scheitern means

Verb

to fail, to conclude unsuccessfully
to flounder

Forms

scheitern · scheitert · scheiterte · ist gescheitert

Pronunciation

scheitern in a sentence

Warum ist das Projekt gescheitert?

Why did the project fail?

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scheitern is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #2,546 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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