ein Buch verreißen / kritisieren

to severely criticize or pan a book

Türkçe: bir kitabı yerden yere vurmak

Noun

Buch n.

Verb

kritisieren

Topic

Bildung und Wissen

In a sentence

Der Kritiker verreißt das neue Buch der Autorin in seiner Kolumne.

How it is used

Means to severely criticize or pan a book. Register: neutral, common in literary reviews. A critic might say this in a newspaper article. Learners often confuse it with 'zerreißen' (to tear physically); it's purely metaphorical.

Other verbs that go with Buch

This is the choice the collocation turns on.

• Buch führento keep accounts/books
• ein Buch lesento read a book
• ein Buch durchblätternto leaf/flip through a book
• ein Buch verfassento write/compose a book
• ein Buch verlegento publish a book
• aus einem Buch vorlesento read aloud from a book
• aus einem Buch zitierento quote from a book
• in einem Buch nachschlagen.to look something up in a book

All collocations with Buch