Example sentences for: auf

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

  • Auf Wiedersehen, Pat

  • 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."

  • 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

  • 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.


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