Example sentences for: auf

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

  • 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.

  • Ein Auto fuhr durch Gossensass, Und zwar durch eine Sossengass' Sodass die ganze Gassensoss' Sich auf die Insassen goss.

  • 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.

  • Auf Wiedersehen, Pat

  • Only the first of its four words slips easily enough into English, as till . But English is the only European language I know that has no calque for the expression au revoir , probably because we have adopted this French phrase, like many others, intact, while other languages have the phrase calqued as: hasta la vista, a rivederci, do svidaniya, do widzenia, auf Wiedersehen, etc.


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