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The article for

Spur

die Spur

Spur is a feminine German noun. Its article is die.

Plural
die Spuren
English
lane, track
Level
B1

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Why is it die Spur?

No ending, compound or meaning rule gives away the article of Spur, so learn the two together: die Spur.

Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Walled legacy

[1] hinweisgebende Hinterlassenschaft

[2] In the narrower sense: Marking caused by locomotion on the floor

[2] im engeren Sinn: durch Fortbewegung bewirkte Markierung auf dem Boden

[3] very small amount

[3] sehr kleine Menge

[4] Fixed track of a movement

[4] fest vorgegebene Bahn einer Fortbewegung

[5] Mathematics: The sum of the diagonal elements of a matrix

[5] Mathematik: die Summe der Diagonalelemente einer Matrix

Examples

[1] From the burglars, every lane lacks

[1] Von den Einbrechern fehlt jede Spur.

[2] The traces were well visible in the snow

[2] Die Spuren waren im Schnee gut sichtbar.
More source examples (3)

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[3] In drinking water, traces of heavy metals found

[3] Im Trinkwasser fanden sich Spuren von Schwermetallen.

[4] The last wagon of the ghost train was jumped out of the track

[4] Der letzte Wagon der Geisterbahn war aus der Spur gesprungen.

[5] For square matrices A, the track SP (a) is defined as the sum of the entries on the diagonal.

[5] Für quadratische Matrizen A definiert man die Spur sp(A) als Summe der Einträge auf der Diagonalen.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Spur die Spuren
Genitiv der Spur der Spuren
Dativ der Spur den Spuren
Akkusativ die Spur die Spuren

Pronunciation

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