der Wehrdienst

B2 Noun frequency rank #9,462

What Wehrdienst means

Noun

military service, national service

Forms

der Wehrdienst · die Wehrdienste

Plural: Wehrdienste

Pronunciation

Wehrdienst in a sentence

Früher mussten junge Männer in Deutschland Wehrdienst leisten.

In the past, young men in Germany had to do military service.

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Wehrdienst is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #9,462 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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