die Zweitstimme

B2 Noun frequency rank #11,572

What Zweitstimme means

Noun

second vote, party vote (in the German electoral system, the vote cast for a party list, which determines the proportional representation of parties in parliament)

Forms

die Zweitstimme · die Zweitstimmen

Plural: Zweitstimmen

Pronunciation

Zweitstimme in a sentence

Die Zweitstimme ist bei der Bundestagswahl entscheidend für das Kräfteverhältnis der Parteien im Parlament.

The second vote is decisive in the Bundestag election for the balance of power between the parties in parliament.

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Zweitstimme is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #11,572 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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