der Sprung
Meaning in English: jump, leap; crack
Example
Mit einem Sprung war der Hund über dem Zaun.
In one leap the dog was over the fence.
Der, die or das?
Sprung is masculine: der Sprung. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -ung are usually die (224 of 226 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Sprung?
Sprung is number 4,439 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 55,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Sprung:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,435spürbarnoticeable, perceptible
- 4,436leidetsuffers
- 4,437die Abhängigkeitdependence, addiction
- 4,438attraktivattractive
- 4,439der Sprungjump, leap; crack
- 4,440bedecktcovered, overcast
- 4,441rücktmoves, shifts
- 4,442der Mitarbeitendeemployees, staff (gender-neutral)
- 4,443wertento rate, to assess, to interpret
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,439
- The most common German nouns#1,933
- German B1 vocabulary#1,453
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#486
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.