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die Vergeltung

C2 Noun frequency rank #8,323

What Vergeltung means

Noun

  1. retribution; retaliation (requital for a bad deed)
  2. requital; reciprocation; payback (the act of treating someone according to how they treated someone else)
  3. reward; recompense (requital for a good deed)

Forms

die Vergeltung · die Vergeltungen

Plural: Vergeltungen

Pronunciation

Vergeltung in a sentence

Er will Vergeltung üben.

He wants vengeance.

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Vergeltung is C2 German — near-native vocabulary, ranked #8,323 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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