kilometer per hour
der Stundenkilometer, die Stundenkilometer
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kilometer per hour
A measure of speed indicating how many kilometers are traveled in one hour; a unit equal to one kilometer per hour.
Das Auto fuhr mit einer Geschwindigkeit von hundert Stundenkilometern.
The car was traveling at a speed of one hundred kilometers per hour.
| gender | masculine der |
|---|---|
| plural | die Stundenkilometer |
| genitive | des Stundenkilometers |
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | der Stundenkilometer | die Stundenkilometer |
| accusative | den Stundenkilometer | die Stundenkilometer |
| dative | dem Stundenkilometer | den Stundenkilometern |
| genitive | des Stundenkilometers | der Stundenkilometer |
The article changes with the case; it is shown in colour.
'Stundenkilometer' (kilometers per hour) consists of 'Stunden' (hours) and 'Kilometer' (kilometers). The first part indicates the period to which the kilometer measurement refers.
Bei sechzig Stundenkilometern legt man in einer Stunde sechzig Kilometer zurück.
At sixty kilometers per hour, you travel sixty kilometers in one hour.
You can state a speed using the pattern 'mit + number + Stundenkilometern' (at + number + kilometers per hour). After 'mit', the dative is used; this pattern works, for example, with 'fahren' (to drive) and 'unterwegs sein' (to be on the way).
Der Bus war mit achtzig Stundenkilometern unterwegs.
The bus was traveling at eighty kilometers per hour.
In the pattern 'number + Stundenkilometer + zu schnell' (number of kilometers per hour too fast), the number indicates how much the permitted speed was exceeded, not the actual speed at which someone was driving.
Erlaubt waren fünfzig, aber sie fuhr siebzig und damit zwanzig Stundenkilometer zu schnell.
The speed limit was fifty, but she was driving at seventy, which meant she was going twenty kilometers per hour too fast.
