spuren
German, verb
spuren is spelled S-P-U-R-E-N (6 letters) and appears 32 times per million words in written German, the 2,594th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spuren is a German verb meaning “to leave a trace” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, spüren is a different word: “to sense, to detect, to perceive”. With a capital, Spuren is a different word: “plural of Spur”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Spur ziehen”.
What does spuren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to leave a trace
verb
- 1
to sense, to detect, to perceive
noun
- 1
plural of Spur
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas körperlich, mit dem Tastsinn wahrnehmen 2. etwas nicht Gegenständliches erkennen 3. das Suchen oder Sehen einer Spur
verb: 1. eine Spur ziehen 2. folgsam sein
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 spuren
- spürt present singular third-person
- spürte past
- gespürt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- spürend participle present
- spüre first-person indicative present
- spürst indicative present second-person
- spürest second-person singular subjunctive
- spüret plural second-person subjunctive
- spürten first-person indicative plural
- spürtest indicative preterite second-person
- spürtet indicative plural preterite
- spür imperative second-person singular
- habe gespürt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gespürt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- spüre! imperative singular
- spürt! imperative plural
- gespürt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to spuren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is spuren in German?
spuren appears 32 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).