tanken

B1 Verb frequency rank #6,300

What tanken means

Verb

to fuel, to refuel (fill a fuel tank of a vehicle)
to drink a lot of alcohol
to move forcefully against resistance

Forms

tanken · tankt · tankte · hat getankt (+ Akkusativ)

Pronunciation

tanken in a sentence

Wir müssen vor der Autobahn noch schnell tanken.

We need to fill up quickly before we hit the motorway.

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tanken is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #6,300 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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