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.

  • 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.

  • My favorite such story, often told in the drug-dimmed dorm rooms of my youth, was that Ralf Hutter (of Kraftwerk) wrote "(Wir fahren, fahren, fahren auf der) Autobahn" after mishearing the Beach Boys' "Fun, Fun, Fun" as "She'll have fahren, fahren, fahren till her daddy takes her T-Bird away."

  • He could easily have “returned” or “reverted” to it, but the pressure of the German ( zuruckkommen auf ) is evidently too great.

  • Auf Wiedersehen, Pat


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