Absteige
German, noun
Absteige is a German feminine noun meaning “doss-house, flophouse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, absteige is a different word: “first-person singular dependent present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “schlichte, minderwertige oder übel beleumundete Unterkunft”.
What does Absteige mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedoss-house, flophouse
verb
- 1
first-person singular dependent present
- 2
first/third-person singular dependent subjunctive I
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. schlichte, minderwertige oder übel beleumundete Unterkunft
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 Absteige
- Absteigen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Absteige in German?
Absteige appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).