die Zäsur

C2 Noun frequency rank #11,259

What Zäsur means

Noun

turning point, watershed (in history, or in a person's life)
caesura (pause or interruption)

Forms

die Zäsur · die Zäsuren

Plural: Zäsuren

Pronunciation

Zäsur in a sentence

Es ist eine Zäsur im Parlament: Wolfgang Schäuble räumt das Podium, die SPD-Politikerin Bärbel Bas übernimmt.

It marks a turning point in parliament: Wolfgang Schäuble steps down and SPD politician Bärbel Bas takes over.

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Zäsur is C2 German — near-native vocabulary, ranked #11,259 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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