Example sentences for: auf

How can you use “auf” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Gesang) wrote: “und sie legt' ihm die Hand auf Haupt and sagte die Worte” [`and she laid her hand on his head and spoke the words']: nekrast negibaul geid sum manteflih dnudna mein tedachs . Thus, Garrison Keillor's boy narrator, with his arooaroo halama rama , is simply continuing a universal tradition, hallowed by generations of priests, magicians--and children--through the millennia.

  • This German version of the Plain Language Initiative-- Kampf auf gut Deutsch , as it might be called--went into effect Aug. 1 but has been challenged in court and will be challenged again in a referendum this fall.

  • There the equivalent is: Besser ein Spatz in der Hand als eine Taube auf dem Dach , Better a sparrow in the hand than a dove on the roof.

  • Erst gekopft, dann gehangen, dann gespiesst auf heisse Stangen, dann verbrannt, dann gebunden und getaucht, zuletzt geschunden.

  • auf beiden Schultern Wasser tragen, Lit. to carry water on both shoulders: to have a foot in both camps


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