Vokabahn

das Stäbchen

B1 Noun frequency rank #10,377

What Stäbchen means

Noun

  1. chopstick
  2. rod (in the retina)
  3. skewer (pin used to secure food during cooking)

Forms

das Stäbchen · die Stäbchen

Plural: Stäbchen

Pronunciation

Stäbchen in a sentence

Die Stäbchen in der Netzhaut ermöglichen das Sehen bei Nacht.

The rods in the retina enable seeing at night.

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Stäbchen is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #10,377 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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