Vocabulary
kritzeln
· verb
to scribble, to scrawl; to doodle
Writing fast and messily — a phone number on a napkin, a note on the back of a receipt, little drawings in the margin during a long meeting.
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Conjugation
- ich
- kritzle
- du
- kritzelst
- er/sie/es
- kritzelt
- wir
- kritzeln
- ihr
- kritzelt
- sie/Sie
- kritzeln
Perfekt hat gekritzeltPräteritum kritzelte
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kritzeln
to scribble, to scrawl; to doodle
Darin lagen zu Hunderten alte Bestellzettel, auf deren Rückseiten Herr Leopold in seiner winzigen, schrägen Schrift Notizen gekritzelt hatte.
Inside lay hundreds of old order slips on whose backs Herr Leopold had scribbled notes in his tiny, slanting hand.
Word family
kritzelndas Gekritzelscribble, scrawldie Kritzeleidoodle, scribblingvollkritzelnto cover with scribbles
Real examples
- Darin lagen zu Hunderten alte Bestellzettel, auf deren Rückseiten Herr Leopold in seiner winzigen, schrägen Schrift Notizen gekritzelt hatte.Inside lay hundreds of old order slips on whose backs Herr Leopold had scribbled notes in his tiny, slanting hand.
- Während der Besprechung kritzelte sie kleine Männchen an den Rand ihres Blocks.During the meeting she doodled little figures in the margin of her pad.
