verhaften

B1 Verb frequency rank #8,727

What verhaften means

Verb

to arrest, to take into custody
to stop moving and instead stick, or make or become bound (more or less literally or figuratively)

Forms

verhaften · verhaftet · verhaftete · hat verhaftet (+ Akkusativ)

Pronunciation

verhaften in a sentence

Die Polizei hat den Dieb verhaftet.

The police arrested the thief.

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verhaften is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #8,727 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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