spurten
German, verb
spurten is spelled S-P-U-R-T-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 51,196th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spurten is a German verb meaning “to sprint” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, spürten is a different word: “first/third-person plural preterite”. With a capital, Spurten is a different word: “dative plural of Spurt”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Geschwindigkeit auf das Höchste beschleunigen”.
What does spurten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sprint
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural preterite
- 2
first/third-person plural subjunctive II
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Spurt
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Geschwindigkeit auf das Höchste beschleunigen
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 spurten
- spurtet present singular third-person
- spurtete past
- gespurtet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- spurtend participle present
- spurte first-person indicative present
- spurtest indicative present second-person
- spurteten first-person indicative plural
- spurtetest indicative preterite second-person
- spurtetet indicative plural preterite
- spurt imperative second-person singular
- habe gespurtet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gespurtet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- spurt! imperative singular
- spurte! imperative singular
- spurtet! imperative plural
- sein auxiliary perfect
- gespurtet haben auxiliary active infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to spurten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is spurten in German?
spurten appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).