Vokabahn

weichen

B2 Verb frequency rank #2,644

What weichen means

Verb

  1. to move farther away, to make room, to yield
  2. to be replaced, to disappear [with dative ‘in favor of something’] (especially of buildings/shops and sentiments)
  3. to wane, to decrease
  4. to soften, to make more flexible or yielding
  5. to soften

Forms

weichen · weicht · wich · ist gewichen | weichen · weicht · weichte · hat geweicht (+ Akkusativ)

Pronunciation

weichen in a sentence

In Hamburg muss ein historisches Kontorhaus einem Bürogebäude weichen.

In Hamburg, a historic trader's house will have an office building take its place.

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weichen is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #2,644 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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