der Auftakt

B2 Noun frequency rank #3,962

What Auftakt means

Noun

kick-off, start, opening (of any event)
anacrusis, upbeat (music)
anacrusis (an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse)

Forms

der Auftakt · die Auftakte

Plural: Auftakte

Pronunciation

Auftakt in a sentence

Das Konzert am Freitag war der Auftakt zum Festival.

Friday's concert was the opening event of the festival.

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Auftakt is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #3,962 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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