scheuen

B2 Verb frequency rank #8,313

What scheuen means

Verb

to be afraid of, to shrink from, to shy away from
to avoid, to balk at (an act or situation, especially over a longer time period)
to shy, to balk at (to physically refuse going near a source of fear, especially of animals)

Forms

scheuen · scheut · scheute · hat gescheut (+ Akkusativ; vor + Dativ)

Pronunciation

scheuen in a sentence

Wir scheuen uns davor, ihm Unannehmlichkeiten zu bereiten.

We're afraid of causing him trouble.

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scheuen is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #8,313 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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