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strafen

C2 Verb frequency rank #3,748

What strafen means

Verb

  1. to punish

Forms

strafen · straft · strafte · hat gestraft (+ Akkusativ)

Pronunciation

strafen in a sentence

Der Markt straft Firmen, die zu spät reagieren.

The market punishes companies that react too late.

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strafen is C2 German — near-native vocabulary, ranked #3,748 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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