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Learn Hardcore German: abstecken - to pin for alteration

Hardcore German
/Having clothes altered
/abstecken

abstecken

Word

abstecken

Meaning

to pin for alteration

Part of speech

verb

Pronunciation

Course

Hardcore German

Lesson

Having clothes altered

Usages of abstecken

Die Schneiderkreide markiert, wo wir abstecken.

The tailor's chalk marks where we pin.

Wir stecken das Hosenbein ab.

We pin the trouser leg.

Während wir das Hosenbein abstecken, markiert er den Saum.

While we pin the trouser leg, he marks the hem.

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