Vokabahn

Verb

erwerben

to earn, gain, acquire

B1 rank #3,433

Meanings

Verb
  1. to earn, gain, acquire
  2. to acquire, to succeed to (irrespectively of the legal cause)
  3. to purchase, acquire (grandiose trope for an act of buying but never in legal language)
  4. to gradually develop, acquire, learn (as opposed to being born with)

In a sentence

In Mailand konnte ich diese wunderschöne Stola erwerben.

In Milan I was able to purchase this wonderful stole.

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Forms

erwerben · erwirbt · erwarb · hat erworben (+ Akkusativ)

erwerben is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #3,433 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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