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Hafer

oats

noun HAH-fer Less Common
Food & Drink Ingredients

Usage Note

Hafer is masculine and a mass noun. The rolled form Haferflocken (oat flakes) is the basis of porridge and muesli; the idiom jemanden sticht der Hafer means someone is getting cocky.

Examples

"Zum Frühstück isst sie Müsli aus Hafer."

Natural Translation

For breakfast she eats muesli made of oats.

Literal Translation

To-the breakfast eats she muesli of oats.

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