Also means
sign
Usage Note
zeichnen means to draw with a pen or pencil, distinct from malen ('to paint'). In formal correspondence it also means to 'sign', and sich auszeichnen means to 'distinguish oneself'.
Examples
"Das Kind zeichnet ein Haus."
Natural Translation
The child is drawing a house.
Literal Translation
The child draws a house.
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Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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