Schritt
See also: schritt
German
Etymology
From Old High German scrit, from Proto-Germanic *skriþiz or *skridiz. Compare *skrīþaną (“to walk, crawl”), whence schreiten. Cognate with Dutch schrede.
Pronunciation
audio (Austria) (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɪt
Noun
Schritt m (genitive Schritts or Schrittes, plural Schritte, diminutive Schrittchen n)
- step
- footstep
- 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:
- crotch
Declension
Hyponyms
- Doppelschritt
Derived terms
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Further reading
- Schritt in Duden online
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