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Meet der Schritt

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All 6 meanings

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

Meanings from Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Forms

How the article changes

For der Schritt, use the coloured columns: masculine and plural.

der, die, das
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativederdiedasdie
accusativedendiedasdie
dativedemderdemden
ein, kein, mein: ein has no plural. mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser… end like kein.
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativeeineineeinkeine
accusativeeineneineeinkeine
dativeeinemeinereinemkeinen

Plural die Schritte · Dative plural den Schritten

Examples

  1. 1
    Der wichtige Schritt hilft mir.The important step helps me.Nominative · subjectPractise „wichtig“ →
  2. 2
    Ich mache einen kleinen Schritt.I take a small step.Accusative · machenPractise „klein“ →
  3. 3
    Paul macht mit seinem ersten Schritt weiter.Paul continues with his first step.Dative · mitPractise „erste“ →
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