Schritt
See also: schritt
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German schrit, from Old High German scrit, from Proto-Germanic *skriþiz or *skridiz. Compare *skrīþaną (“to walk, crawl”), whence schreiten. Cognate with Dutch schrede.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Schritt m (strong, genitive Schrittes or Schritts, plural Schritte, diminutive Schrittchen n)
- step, footstep (a single instance of walking)
- 1876, from the final poem of Dahn's Ein Kampf um Rom:
- Gebt Raum, ihr Völker, unsrem Schritt.
Wir sind die letzten Goten.
Wir tragen keine Krone mit,
Wir tragen einen Toten.- Make way, ye peoples, before our footstep.
We are the last of the Goths,
We carry no crown with us,
We carry a corpse.
- Make way, ye peoples, before our footstep.
- 1876, from the final poem of Dahn's Ein Kampf um Rom:
- walk (slow gait of a horse)
- crotch (the area between the human legs close to the genitals or comprising them)
- a pace (any of several obsolete linear measures about as long as a man steps, that is about 70–80 cm)
- any imaginary measure that is likened in its partitioning to the distance traveled by a leg moving forward in its single footsteps
- Er war uns einige Schritte voraus. ― He was a few steps ahead of us.
- Leg einen Schritt zu! ― Faster!
- step, move, stage (the part of a measure in the sense of an action one takes)
- Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, sind folgende Schritte durchzuführen:
- To reach this end, the following steps need to be performed:
- beim ersten Schritt.
- in the first step.
- Ellipsis of Schrittgeschwindigkeit.
- Fahren Sie Schritt! ― Drive as fast as a pedestrian walks!
Declension edit
Declension of Schritt [masculine, strong]
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Further reading edit
- “Schritt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Schritt” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Schritt” in Duden online
- Schritt on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Hunsrik edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Schritt m (plural Schritte, diminutive Schrittche)