die Sackgasse

B1 Noun frequency rank #8,751

What Sackgasse means

Noun

dead-end street; cul-de-sac
dead end (something that does not lead one to the intended result)
impasse (stagnation that one can only overcome by fundamentally changing one’s approach)
stalemate; deadlock (stagnation that is due to an inability or unwillingness to reach a compromise)

Forms

die Sackgasse · die Sackgassen

Plural: Sackgassen

Pronunciation

Sackgasse in a sentence

Wir wohnen in einer ruhigen Sackgasse.

We live in a quiet cul-de-sac.

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Sackgasse is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #8,751 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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