der Henker

B2 Noun frequency rank #8,757

What Henker means

Noun

hangman, an executioner, particularly for executions where blood is not shed

Forms

der Henker · die Henker

Plural: Henker

Pronunciation

Henker in a sentence

Früher führte der Henker die Verurteilten zum Galgen.

In the past, the executioner led the condemned to the gallows.

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Henker is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #8,757 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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