Anstieg
German, noun
Anstieg is a German masculine noun meaning “increase, rise, surge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, anstieg is a different word: “first/third-person singular dependent preterite of ansteigen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Aufwärts verlaufende Strecke”.
What does Anstieg mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineincrease, rise, surge
- 2
masculineascent
- 3
masculineslope
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular dependent preterite of ansteigen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Aufwärts verlaufende Strecke 2. Erhöhung eines Wertes 3. Differenzenquotient einer Kurve
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Anstieg
- Anstieges genitive
- Anstiegs genitive
- Anstiege plural
- Anstiegen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Anstieg
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Anstieg in German?
Anstieg appears 16 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).