Vokabahn

das Verhängnis

C1 Noun frequency rank #9,843

What Verhängnis means

Noun

  1. doom, undoing (a fate that brings ruin on someone)
  2. fatality, fate

Forms

das Verhängnis · die Verhängnisse

Plural: Verhängnisse

Pronunciation

Verhängnis in a sentence

Ihre Neugier wurde der Katze zum Verhängnis.

The cat's curiosity was its undoing.

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Verhängnis is C1 German — advanced vocabulary, ranked #9,843 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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