die Spur
Meaning in English: trace, track, lane
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Bitte bleiben Sie auf der rechten Spur.
Please stay in the right-hand lane.
Der, die or das?
Spur is feminine: die Spur. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ur are die in 12 of 14 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Spur in the top 5,000
These forms of Spur are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Im Schnee sieht man die Spuren eines Fuchses.
You can see a fox's tracks in the snow.
How common is Spur?
Spur is number 3,178 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 27 times per million words — about once every 37,000 words. Its most frequent form is Spuren (#2,704).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,174die Immobilieproperty, real estate
- 3,175Quellensources; springs
- 3,176der Kapitäncaptain
- 3,177anpassento adapt, to adjust
- 3,178die Spurtrace, track, lane
- 3,179Händenhands (dative plural)
- 3,180nochmalagain, once more
- 3,181bestensvery well, excellently
- 3,182zwingendmandatory, necessarily
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,178
- The most common German nouns#1,336
- German B2 vocabulary#651
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#444
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.