Steuerwagen
German, noun
Steuerwagen is a German masculine noun meaning “control car, cab car, driving trailer (a non-powered passenger car equipped with a driver's cab to operate a push-pull train from the front…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Steuerwägen is a different word: “plural of Steuerwagen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Eisenbahnfahrzeug am Ende des Zuges, von dem aus das Triebfahrzeug bei Rückwärtsfahrt bedient werden kann”.
What does Steuerwagen mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecontrol car, cab car, driving trailer (a non-powered passenger car equipped with a driver's cab to operate a push-pull train from the front while being pushed by a locomotive at the rear)
Am Ende des Wendezuges befindet sich ein Steuerwagen, von dem aus der Lokführer die Lokomotive am anderen Zugende steuert.
noun
- 1
masculineplural of Steuerwagen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Eisenbahnfahrzeug am Ende des Zuges, von dem aus das Triebfahrzeug bei Rückwärtsfahrt bedient werden kann
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 Steuerwagen
- Steuerwagens genitive
- Steuerwägen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Steuerwagen in German?
Steuerwagen appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).