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querfeldein

cross-country, across open fields

adverb KVER-felt-eyn Rare
Travel & Places Movement

Usage Note

Querfeldein means directly across fields or terrain, ignoring roads or paths. Querfeldein laufen (to run cross-country). It is used in athletics (Querfeldeinlauf) and colloquially for cutting across.

Examples

"Um die Zeit aufzuholen, liefen sie querfeldein direkt zum Gipfel."

Natural Translation

To make up time, they ran cross-country directly to the summit.

Literal Translation

In-order-to the time to-make-up, ran they cross-field-on directly to-the summit.

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