Vokabahn

der Riss

C2 Noun frequency rank #3,793

What Riss means

Noun

  1. fissure, crack
  2. rift, split, tear
  3. prey killed by a predatory animal

Forms

der Riss · die Risse

Plural: Risse

Pronunciation

Riss in a sentence

Welchen Sinn hat es, so einen großen Riss zu flicken?

What's the point of patching such a big tear?

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Riss is C2 German — near-native vocabulary, ranked #3,793 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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