stunden
German, verb
stunden is a German verb meaning “to defer (due date; performance upon an obligation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Stunden is a different word: “plural of Stunde”. With an umlaut, stünden is a different word: “first/third-person plural subjunctive II of stehen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “das Datum für die Rückgabe der Schulden in die Zukunft verschieben”.
What does stunden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to defer (due date; performance upon an obligation)
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Stunde
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural subjunctive II of stehen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. das Datum für die Rückgabe der Schulden in die Zukunft verschieben
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 stunden
- stundet present singular third-person
- stundete past
- gestundet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- stundend participle present
- stunde first-person indicative present
- stundest indicative present second-person
- stundeten first-person indicative plural
- stundetest indicative preterite second-person
- stundetet indicative plural preterite
- stund imperative second-person singular
- habe gestundet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gestundet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- stunde! imperative singular
- stundet! imperative plural
- gestundet haben active infinitive perfect
- gestundet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- gestundet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is stunden in German?
stunden appears 229 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).