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die Vorlage

B1 Noun frequency rank #2,429

What Vorlage means

Noun

  1. template (generic layout or form to be specified with concrete data)
  2. source material, original, inspiration (the material that is adapted into a piece of media or art, e.g. a novel turned into a film)
  3. presentation, submission (of a document requested/required as part of a process)
  4. setup, assist, opportunity (something which is promptly referenced by someone else to make a joke, argument, segue or criticism)

Forms

die Vorlage · die Vorlagen

Plural: Vorlagen

Pronunciation

Vorlage in a sentence

Die Vorlage für den Film war ein Roman.

The source material for the film was a novel.

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Vorlage is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #2,429 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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