Polyglot Dictionary

lange

/ˈlaŋə/

adverb A1

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

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

Adv Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. for a long time

    The adverbial form of lang — used for duration, where lang alone describes length or a duration attached to a noun.

    • Wir haben lange gewartet.

      We waited for a long time.

Similar words

längst

lange means "for a long time," a duration; längst means "long since, already for a while now."

Similar in other languages

French

longtemps

longtemps is the French word for the same thing — both mean "for a long time."

Practice

1 What does lange mean?

2 Fill the gap: Wir haben ___ gewartet.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches lange?

See also

adverbcore-vocabularytime

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