der Zwang

B2 Noun frequency rank #3,263

What Zwang means

Noun

compulsion, obligation, duress

Forms

der Zwang · die Zwänge

Plural: Zwänge

Pronunciation

Zwang in a sentence

Sie haben den Vertrag nur unter Zwang unterschrieben.

They only signed the contract under duress.

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Zwang is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #3,263 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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