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2 results for ergattern
Word division: er·gat·tern
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Wir haben uns stundenlang angestellt, um die besten Sitzplätze ergattern zu können. We stood in line for hours to get/have dibs on the best seats.

Und nachdem es selbst für vermögende Museen und Malerei-Liebhaber schwer geworden ist, frische Ware von der Elite der Leipziger Maler zu ergattern, beginnt man sich vorsorglich bereits beim Nachwuchs umzusehen. [G] And now that it is difficult for even well-to-do museums and collectors to get hold of fresh wares from the Leipzig painter elite, one has already begun, in order to be on the safe side, to look about for the next generation.

The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute.
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