der Span

B1 Noun frequency rank #9,056

What Span means

Noun

chip; shaving; clipping (small, usually flat, cut-off piece)

Forms

der Span · die Späne

Plural: Späne

Pronunciation

Span in a sentence

Wo gehobelt wird, da fliegen Späne.

Where there is planing, shavings fly.

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Span is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #9,056 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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