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Spannung — suspense, tension in German

dienounUnleveled

Quick Facts

Gender

die

Plural

Spannungen

Level

Unleveled

Frequency

58/100

Source Rank

#2,118

Word Family

Connected forms and compounds detected from the corpus.

Spannen Family3 wordsUnleveled 2A2 1Adjective 1Noun 1Verb 1

Example Sentences

Es gibt Anzeichen für wachsende Spannungen zwischen den beiden Ländern.

There are signs of growing tensions between the two countries.

Es herrschten viele Spannungen zwischen Tom und Maria.

There was a lot of tension between Tom and Mary.

Example sentences from Tatoeba, licensed under CC BY 2.0 FR.

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