zurückgreifen

B1 Verb frequency rank #5,578

What zurückgreifen means

Verb

to fall back (on)
to go back (to)
to resort (to)
to revert (to)

Forms

zurückgreifen · greift zurück · griff zurück · hat zurückgegriffen

Pronunciation

zurückgreifen in a sentence

In Notfällen greifen wir auf unsere Ersparnisse zurück.

In emergencies we fall back on our savings.

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zurückgreifen is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #5,578 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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