Polyglot Dictionary

fahren

/ˈfaːʁən/

verb A1

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

V Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

du
fährst
er/sie/es
fährt
past
fuhr
perfect
ist gefahren

Meaning

  1. to drive, to travel (by vehicle)

    The stem behind Fahrrad (bicycle) and Fahrkarte (ticket) — always implies travelling by some kind of vehicle, unlike gehen on foot.

V Category Action Concreteness Concrete Agency Voluntary Duration Durative Transitivity Intransitive

Practice

1 What does fahren mean?

2 Fill the gap: Wir ___ mit dem Zug nach Hamburg.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches fahren?

See also

verbirregularcore-vocabularytransport

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