anstehend
German, adjective[ˈanˌʃteːənt]
anstehend is spelled A-N-S-T-E-H-E-N-D (9 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written German, the 330,389th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anstehend is a German adjective meaning “pending” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of anstehen. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in (naher) Zukunft stattfindend, sich ereignend, geplant oder zu erledigend”.
What does anstehend mean in English?
adjective
- 1
pending
verb
- 1
present participle of anstehen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. in (naher) Zukunft stattfindend, sich ereignend, geplant oder zu erledigend 2. an der Erdoberfläche zugänglich und von ursprünglicher Beschaffenheit
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 anstehend
- anstehender masculine nominative singular
- anstehende feminine nominative singular
- anstehendes neuter nominative singular
- anstehenden genitive masculine singular
- anstehendem dative masculine singular
- der anstehende definite includes-article masculine
- die anstehende definite feminine includes-article
- das anstehende definite includes-article neuter
- die anstehenden definite includes-article nominative
- des anstehenden definite genitive includes-article
- der anstehenden definite feminine genitive
- dem anstehenden dative definite includes-article
- den anstehenden dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce anstehend?
- [ˈanˌʃteːənt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to anstehend
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anstehend in German?
anstehend appears about once in every 32 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).