anstupsen
German, verb
anstupsen is spelled A-N-S-T-U-P-S-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 195,050th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anstupsen is a German verb meaning “to nudge, to poke” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Anstupsen is a different word: “gerund of anstupsen; nudging”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “leicht berühren”.
What does anstupsen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to nudge, to poke
- 2
to set in motion, to ask someone to do something
- 3
to send a nudge or notification to another user on a social media platform
noun
- 1
neutergerund of anstupsen; nudging
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. leicht berühren 2. jemanden auffordern, etwas zu beginnen oder zu tun
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 anstupsen
- stupst an present singular third-person
- stupste an past
- angestupst participle past
- haben auxiliary
- anstupsend participle present
- anzustupsen infinitive infinitive-zu
- stupse an first-person indicative present
- stupsen an first-person indicative plural
- stupsest an second-person singular subjunctive
- stupset an plural second-person subjunctive
- stupsten an first-person indicative plural
- stupstest an indicative preterite second-person
- stupstet an indicative plural preterite
- stups an! imperative singular
- stupse an! imperative singular
- stupst an! imperative plural
- angestupst haben active infinitive perfect
- angestupst werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to anstupsen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anstupsen in German?
anstupsen appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).