spitzen

B1 Verb frequency rank #3,728

What spitzen means

Verb

to point (to make pointy), to sharpen (a pencil)
to perk up, prick up (one's ears)
to impatiently wait for something, to urgently await something
to have one's eye on something (with the desire to obtain)

Forms

spitzen · spitzt · spitzte · hat gespitzt (+ Akkusativ; auf + Akkusativ)

Pronunciation

spitzen in a sentence

Der Junge spitzt seinen Bleistift.

The boy sharpens his pencil.

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spitzen is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #3,728 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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