Vokabahn

die Sau

C1 Noun frequency rank #3,156

What Sau means

Noun

  1. sow (female pig)
  2. a dislikable or unethical person

Forms

die Sau · die Säue

Plural: Säue

Pronunciation

Sau in a sentence

Das ist Perlen vor die Säue werfen.

It is like casting pearls before swine.

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Sau is C1 German — advanced vocabulary, ranked #3,156 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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