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Illustration of the A1 German word “die Tafel”, which translates to “blackboard”. Dana — blonde bob, red cardigan, lanyard — stands on a rolling ladder at a blackboard as tall as a house, chalk dust clouding round her, arms spread over a huge chalk drawing of the planets, grinning in pride.

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

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dieTafel, -n

blackboard

/ˈtaːfl̩/

Examples — Tafel in a sentence

Der Lehrer schreibt an die Tafel.

The teacher writes on the blackboard.

Die Tafel ist sehr groß.

The blackboard is very big.

How to remember it

TAH-fel sounds like 'table' – imagine a huge blackboard that's also a table, covered in chalk dust.

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