zurücktreten

B2 Verb frequency rank #5,676

What zurücktreten means

Verb

to step back
to resign, to step down
to rescind, to cancel

Forms

zurücktreten · tritt zurück · trat zurück · ist zurückgetreten

Pronunciation

zurücktreten in a sentence

Wir mussten einen Schritt zurücktreten, um das Bild ganz zu sehen.

We had to step back to see the whole picture.

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zurücktreten is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #5,676 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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