der Sündenbock

C2 Noun frequency rank #10,110

What Sündenbock means

Noun

scapegoat (someone punished for someone else's error(s))
scapegoat (goat imbued with the sins of the people)

Forms

der Sündenbock · die Sündenböcke

Plural: Sündenböcke

Pronunciation

Sündenbock in a sentence

Der Chef sucht einen Sündenbock.

The boss is looking for a scapegoat.

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Sündenbock is C2 German — near-native vocabulary, ranked #10,110 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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