das Elend

A2 Noun frequency rank #4,216

What Elend means

Noun

misery

Forms

das Elend · no common plural

Pronunciation

Elend in a sentence

Nach dem Krieg herrschte großes Elend im Land.

After the war there was great misery in the country.

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Elend is A2 German — still elementary vocabulary, ranked #4,216 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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