sprinten
German, verb
sprinten is spelled S-P-R-I-N-T-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 74,397th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sprinten is a German verb meaning “to sprint (to partake in a sprinting competition)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Sprinten is a different word: “gerund of sprinten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “am Sprint teilnehmen, die Kurzstrecke laufen”.
What does sprinten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sprint (to partake in a sprinting competition)
- 2
to sprint (to run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period)
- 3
informalto run quickly
noun
- 1
neutergerund of sprinten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. am Sprint teilnehmen, die Kurzstrecke laufen 2. schnell laufen, wie beim Sprint
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 sprinten
- sprintet present singular third-person
- sprintete past
- gesprintet participle past
- sein auxiliary
- sprintend participle present
- sprinte first-person indicative present
- sprintest indicative present second-person
- sprinteten first-person indicative plural
- sprintetest indicative preterite second-person
- sprintetet indicative plural preterite
- sprint imperative second-person singular
- bin gesprintet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sind gesprintet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sprint! imperative singular
- sprinte! imperative singular
- sprintet! imperative plural
- gesprintet sein active infinitive perfect
- gesprintet werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sprinten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sprinten in German?
sprinten appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).