schalten

B1 Verb frequency rank #3,870

What schalten means

Verb

to shift gears
to switch
to be on the ball (to be quick to understand and react to something sudden and/or unexpected)

Forms

schalten · schaltet · schaltete · hat geschaltet

Pronunciation

schalten in a sentence

In den zweiten Gang schaltet er immer zu spät.

He always shifts into second gear too late.

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schalten is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #3,870 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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