Vokabahn

die Verlegenheit

B1 Noun frequency rank #9,813

What Verlegenheit means

Noun

  1. embarrassment
  2. an uninvited, but not necessarily embarrassing, situation

Forms

die Verlegenheit · die Verlegenheiten

Plural: Verlegenheiten

Pronunciation

Verlegenheit in a sentence

Habe ich Sie in Verlegenheit gebracht?

Did I embarrass you?

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Verlegenheit is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #9,813 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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