Definition
The amount of time during which an event or process lasts.
Translations
- English
- duration
- Français
- durée
- Türkçe
- süre
- Polski
- czas trwania
- Русский
- продолжительность
- Українська
- тривалість
GERMAN DICTIONARY
die Dauer
- B1
- Noun
- Time & Calendar
- Services & Everyday Tasks
duration
/diː ˈdaʊ̯ɐ/
Meaning and translations
Meaning, definition and translations of this sense.
Grammar & classification
Main grammatical and classification properties of the word.
- Article
- die
- Gender
- Feminine
- Plural
- —
- Part of speech
- Noun
- CEFR level
- B1
- Morphology
- Simple word
- Topics
- Time & CalendarPrimaryServices & Everyday Tasks
Usage examples
Examples showing real usage and grammatical forms.
- Die Dauer des Kurses ist bekannt.NominativSing.The duration of the course is known.
- Wir verlängern die Dauer des Projekts.AkkusativSing.We are extending the duration of the project.
- Mit der Dauer der Sitzung rechnet niemand.DativSing.No one is counting on the duration of the meeting.
- Das Ende der Dauer ist schwer vorherzusagen.GenitivSing.The end of the duration is difficult to predict.
Pronunciation and forms
Pronunciation and audio for the lemma and important forms.
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Lemma
Dauer/ˈdaʊ̯ɐ/
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Article phrase
die Dauer/diː ˈdaʊ̯ɐ/
Declension / Forms
How the noun changes across German cases and singular or plural.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | die Dauer | — |
| Akkusativ | die Dauer | — |
| Dativ | der Dauer | — |
| Genitiv | der Dauer | — |
Usage and collocations
Typical constructions, prepositions and word combinations.
- Collocationdie Dauer eines Kurses
- Collocationdie Dauer einer Reparatur
- Verb constructiondie Dauer von etwas bestimmen + Akkusativ
- Prepositional constructionfür die Dauerfür + Akkusativ
- Sentence patternDie Dauer des Projekts beträgt zwei Stunden.
Semantic relations
How this meaning relates to other meanings and easily confused words.
- Semantically relatedZeit — time
- Near-synonymZeitdauer
Zeitdauer also denotes a measured period of time; Dauer, however, is the more usual and more general term.
- Broader termZeitraum
A Zeitraum denotes a delimited period of time; Dauer, by contrast, emphasizes how long a process or event lasts.
Word formation and word family
How the word is formed and its reviewed lexical family.
Formation typeSimple word
„Dauer“ is, synchronically, a simple noun without any productively recognizable composition or derivation.