Verb

pflegen

to care for, to look after; to nurse

B1 rank #3,369

Meanings

Verb

to care for, to look after; to nurse
providing care or service for someone/something
to nurse; to care for someone in poor health
to take care of, to tend to, to maintain
to improve or care for something in an intellectual sense

In a sentence

Sie pflegt ihren kranken Vater zu Hause.

She cares for her sick father at home.

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Forms

pflegen · pflegt · pflegte · hat gepflegt (+ Akkusativ)

pflegen is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #3,369 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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