
ablesen is one of the B1 words in the free course — with this picture, the audio, and spaced repetition.
ablesen
read off
/ˈapˌleːzn̩/Conjugation
Principal parts
ablesen, las ab, hat abgelesen
Practice "ablesen"
Examples — ablesen in a sentence
Ich lese den Zählerstand ab.
I read off the meter.
Sie hat die Rede vom Blatt abgelesen.
She read the speech off the page.
How to remember it
"ab" (off) + lesen → read off (a meter, a page).
Word family
lesen family · 11 related words
- ablesen read off
- auslesen Coming soon to select; to read out Shifted meaning
- nachlesen look up / read up
- vorlesen read aloud
- durchlesen read through
- mitlesen Coming soon to read along
- weiterlesen continue reading
- der Leser reader