Polyglot Dictionary

Stau

/ʃtaʊ̯/

der noun A2

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

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
die Staus

Meaning

  1. traffic jam

    From stauen (to dam up, to back up).

    • Wir standen eine Stunde im Stau.

      We were stuck in a traffic jam for an hour.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Mass Scope Individual

Similar words

Similar in other languages

French

embouteillage

embouteillage is the French word for the same thing — both mean "traffic jam."

Portuguese

engarrafamento

engarrafamento is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "traffic jam."

Practice

1 What does Stau mean?

2 Fill the gap: Wir standen eine Stunde im ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Stau?

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