Vokabahn

scheren

B2 Verb frequency rank #8,212

What scheren means

Verb

  1. to shear (sheep etc.)
  2. to cut back something that grows
  3. to clip, prune (a hedge)
  4. to bother (someone); to trouble (someone), to be of interest (to someone)
  5. to care (about something); to mind (something)
  6. to go into a certain direction
  7. to scram; to beat it
  8. to shear, to apply a shearing transformation to (mathematics)

Forms

scheren · schert · schor · hat geschoren (+ Akkusativ; um + Akkusativ) | scheren · schert · scherte · hat geschert (+ Akkusativ; um + Akkusativ) | scheren · schert · scherte · hat geschert (+ Akkusativ)

Pronunciation

scheren in a sentence

Der Bauer lässt im Frühjahr seine Schafe scheren.

The farmer has his sheep sheared in spring.

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scheren is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #8,212 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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