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die Pest

B2 Noun frequency rank #4,665

What Pest means

Noun

  1. bubonic plague, the plague
  2. any of various unrelated epidemic diseases affecting animals
  3. anything that negatively affects vast areas, especially a natural disaster
  4. anything terrible or odious

Forms

die Pest · die Pesten

Plural: Pesten

Pronunciation

Pest in a sentence

Die Pest tötete im Mittelalter Millionen von Menschen.

The plague killed millions of people in the Middle Ages.

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Pest is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #4,665 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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