der Verkehrsstau

C1 Noun frequency rank #12,627

What Verkehrsstau means

Noun

traffic jam (situation in which road traffic is stationary or very slow)

Forms

der Verkehrsstau · die Verkehrsstaus

Plural: Verkehrsstaus

Pronunciation

Verkehrsstau in a sentence

Wegen eines Verkehrsstaus kamen wir zur Sitzung zu spät.

Because of a traffic jam, we were late for the meeting.

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Verkehrsstau is C1 German — advanced vocabulary, ranked #12,627 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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