GERMAN · C1WORD NOTES
MEANING & PRONUNCIATION

die Phrase

empty phrase; cliche

Die Phrase von der großen Familie überzeugte sie wenig, solange ihre berechtigten Fragen zu Arbeitszeiten und Bezahlung unbeantwortet blieben.

The phrase about being one big family did little to convince her as long as her legitimate questions about working hours and pay remained unanswered.

phrase; grammatical unit

Um den Satz zu verstehen, markierten wir zunächst die Phrase, die als Ganzes das Subjekt bildet, statt jedes Wort isoliert einzuordnen.

To understand the sentence, we first marked the phrase that forms the subject as a whole instead of classifying each word in isolation.

musical phrase

Die musikalische Phrase sollte in einem Bogen gespielt werden, damit die einzelnen Töne nicht wie voneinander getrennte Einfälle wirken.

The musical phrase should be played as a single flowing line so that the individual notes do not sound like disconnected ideas.

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