spüren

See also: spueren, Spuren, and spuren

German

Etymology

From Middle High German spüren, spuren, spurn, from Old High German spurien, spurren, from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną. Cognate with dialectal English speer, Swedish spörja.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃpyːʁən/, [ˈʃpyːʁən], [ˈʃpyːɐn]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: spü‧ren

Verb

spüren (weak, third-person singular present spürt, past tense spürte, past participle gespürt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to sense, to detect, to perceive
    Warte! Ich spüre Gefahr.
    Wait! I sense danger.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • spüren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • spüren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • spüren” in Duden online
  • spüren” in OpenThesaurus.de
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