die Verspätung

A2 Noun frequency rank #4,041

What Verspätung means

Noun

delay, lateness, late arrival

Forms

die Verspätung · die Verspätungen

Plural: Verspätungen

Pronunciation

Verspätung in a sentence

Was ist die Ursache der Verspätung?

What is the cause of the delay?

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Verspätung is A2 German — still elementary vocabulary, ranked #4,041 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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