Masculine

Schritt

Sentences
Meaning

  1. (masculine, strong) step, footstep (a single instance of walking)
  2. (masculine, strong) walk (slow gait of a horse)
  3. (masculine, strong) crotch (the area between the human legs close to the genitals or comprising them)
  4. (masculine, strong) a pace (any of several obsolete linear measures about as long as a man steps, that is about 70–80 cm)
  5. (masculine, strong) any imaginary measure that is likened in its partitioning to the distance traveled by a leg moving forward in its single footsteps
  6. (masculine, strong) step, move, stage (the part of a measure in the sense of an action one takes)
  7. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, masculine, strong) ellipsis of Schrittgeschwindigkeit

Frequency

B1
Dialects

Zürich

Zürich

schritt

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
[ʃʁɪtʰ]
Etymology

In summary

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.

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