# der Schritt

der Schritt is a German noun meaning “step”. Forms: des Schrittes, die Schritte.

## Forms

- Genitive: des Schrittes
- Plural: die Schritte

## In other languages

- Русский: шаг

## Meanings

1. step, footstep (a single instance of walking)
   - Gebt Raum, ihr Völker, unsrem Schritt. Wir sind die letzten Goten. Wir tragen keine Krone mit, — Make way, ye peoples, before our footstep. We are the last of the Goths, We carry no crown with us, We carry a corpse.
2. walk (slow gait of a horse)
3. crotch (the area between the human legs close to the genitals or comprising them)
4. a pace (any of several obsolete linear measures about as long as a man steps, that is about 70–80 cm)
5. any imaginary measure that is likened in its partitioning to the distance traveled by a leg moving forward in its single footsteps
   - Er war uns einige Schritte voraus. — He was a few steps ahead of us.
6. step, move, stage (the part of a measure in the sense of an action one takes)
   - Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, sind folgende Schritte durchzuführen: — To reach this end, the following steps need to be performed:

## Examples

- Einen Schritt weiter und du bist tot! — One more step and you're dead.
- Das Kind hat seinen ersten Schritt getan. — The baby has taken its first steps.
- Ich kann keinen einzigen Schritt mehr gehen. — I can't walk another step.
- Die ersten Schritte sind immer die schwersten. — The first steps are always the hardest.
- Das ist ein sehr mutiger Schritt. — It's a very bold step.

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