spornen
German, verb
spornen is spelled S-P-O-R-N-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 172,698th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spornen is a German verb meaning “to buckle a spur” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Spornen is a different word: “dative plural of Sporn”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Sporen anschnallen”.
What does spornen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to buckle a spur
- 2
to ride a horse
noun
- 1
dative plural of Sporn
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Sporen anschnallen 2. ein Pferd (mit Hilfe von Sporen) antreiben 3. zu höherer Leistung auffordern
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of spornen
- spornt present singular third-person
- spornte past
- gespornt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- spornend participle present
- sporne first-person indicative present
- spornst indicative present second-person
- spornest second-person singular subjunctive
- spornet plural second-person subjunctive
- spornten first-person indicative plural
- sporntest indicative preterite second-person
- sporntet indicative plural preterite
- sporn imperative second-person singular
- habe gespornt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gespornt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sporn! imperative singular
- sporne! imperative singular
- spornt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is spornen in German?
spornen appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).