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schief

B1 Adjective / Adverb frequency rank #2,607

What schief means

Adjective

  1. skew, oblique, askew, leaning, slanting, aslant, inclined (neither parallel nor perpendicular)
  2. slopy, sloping (characterised by a slope or slopes)
  3. crooked, awry (set at an angle; not vertical or square)
  4. lopsided (not even or balanced; not the same on one side as on the other)

Adverb

  1. crookedly, at an angle
  2. lopsidedly
  3. askance (sideways; obliquely)
  4. badly, wrong (in a way that isn't right)

Forms

Adjective | Adverb

Pronunciation

schief in a sentence

Das Regal hängt schief an der Wand.

The shelf is hanging crooked on the wall.

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schief is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #2,607 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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