Vokabahn

der Kolben

B2 Noun frequency rank #9,436

What Kolben means

Noun

  1. piston
  2. butt of a rifle
  3. spadix
  4. spike (of Typha)

Forms

der Kolben · die Kolben

Plural: Kolben

Pronunciation

Kolben in a sentence

Der Kolben bewegt sich im Motor sehr schnell auf und ab.

The piston moves up and down very fast inside the engine.

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Kolben is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #9,436 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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