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Traffic and public transport

Tickets, signs and the rules that a German street assumes you know.

Two conventions catch people out. Public transport mostly runs without barriers: you buy a ticket, and on many networks you must also validate it — entwerten — before boarding; an unvalidated ticket counts as no ticket at all. And parking often needs a Parkscheibe, a small cardboard dial set to your arrival time and placed behind the windscreen, which is free and compulsory where the sign shows it.

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entwertento validate a ticketVerbC1
Die Fahrkarte muss vor der Fahrt entwertet werden.The ticket has to be validated before the journey.

An unvalidated ticket counts as no ticket.

schwarzfahrento travel without a ticketVerbC1
Wer schwarzfährt, zahlt sechzig Euro.Travelling without a ticket costs sixty euros.
stockento be slow-movingVerbC1
Der Verkehr stockt seit einer Stunde.The traffic has been crawling for an hour.

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