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die Verschärfung

B2 Noun frequency rank #7,944

What Verschärfung means

Noun

  1. tightening, intensification
  2. Holtzmann's law: a sound change whereby Proto-Germanic *jj became ddj in Gothic and ggj in Old Norse, while *ww became ggw in both Gothic and Old Norse

Forms

die Verschärfung · die Verschärfungen

Plural: Verschärfungen

Pronunciation

Verschärfung in a sentence

Die Verschärfung der Regeln kam für viele überraschend.

The tightening of the rules came as a surprise to many.

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Verschärfung is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #7,944 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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