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das Schicksal

B1 Noun frequency rank #1,693

What Schicksal means

Noun

  1. destiny, fate (irresistible power that predetermines events)
  2. someone's destiny, fate
  3. life story; the general conditions and main developments of a person's life; more often than in English used without any notion of predetermination

Forms

das Schicksal · die Schicksale

Plural: Schicksale

Pronunciation

Schicksal in a sentence

Glaubst du, dass unser Schicksal bestimmt wird von den Sternen?

Do you believe our destinies are controlled by the stars?

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Schicksal is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #1,693 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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