Vokabahn

die Instanz

B2 Noun frequency rank #4,121

What Instanz means

Noun

  1. legal authority
  2. authority, entity (any agency, person or level in a hierarchy considered to have authority over a situation)
  3. instance (specific occurence or realization)

Forms

die Instanz · die Instanzen

Plural: Instanzen

Pronunciation

Instanz in a sentence

Der Bundesgerichtshof ist die oberste gerichtliche Instanz für Strafverfahren in Deutschland.

The Federal Court of Justice is the highest judicial authority for criminal proceedings in Germany.

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Instanz is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #4,121 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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