Polyglot Dictionary

Weg

/veːk/

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 Wege

Meaning

  1. path, way, route

    Also figurative, exactly like English "way" — "auf dem richtigen Weg" (on the right track).

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

weg

Same spelling, unrelated meaning, told apart only by capitalisation: weg lowercase is the adverb "away, gone" ("Er ist weg" — He's gone). Capitalised Weg is the noun "path."

fort

weg and fort both mean "away/gone" and are largely interchangeable; fort is slightly more literary and appears often as a separable-verb prefix.

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

pista

Close — a track relates to a path, a way.

Practice

1 What does Weg mean?

2 Fill the gap: Der ___ zum Bahnhof ist kurz.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Weg?

See also

nouncore-vocabularytravel

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