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Illustration of the A1 German word “das Heft”, which translates to “notebook, exercise book”. An open notebook floating in mid-air, tiny glowing inkdrops leaping from a nearby bottle and settling across its blank pages like soft blue fireflies.

Heft is part of German nouns A1–B1 and Goethe A1 vocabulary.

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dasHeft, -e

notebook, exercise book

/hɛft/

Examples — Heft in a sentence

Schreibe es in dein Heft.

Write it in your notebook.

Ich brauche ein neues Heft.

I need a new notebook.

How to remember it

HEFT sounds like "heft". It takes a lot of "heft" (weight/effort) to carry all your *notebooks*!

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