verzichten

B1 Verb frequency rank #1,668

What verzichten means

Verb

to give up, to go without, to live without, to make do without, to do without, to forgo, to dispense with
to refrain from, to abstain, to renounce, to forswear

Forms

verzichten · verzichtet · verzichtete · hat verzichtet (auf + Akkusativ)

Pronunciation

verzichten in a sentence

Ich verzichte auf mein Stück Kuchen.

I'm doing without my piece of cake.

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verzichten is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #1,668 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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