German expressions

Pennen

Translation

To crash / To sleep / To hit the sack

Text examples

Text:Ich bin müde, ich gehe pennen.
Translation:I'm tired, I'm going to crash.

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Pennen is an idiomatic expression of the German language. Translation into English: To crash / To sleep / To hit the sack. Difficulty level — C1. Such expressions are important to understand and memorize as a whole: their meaning far from always adds up from the meanings of the individual words, so a literal translation often doesn't work here.

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