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draufstehen

German, verb

draufstehen is spelled D-R-A-U-F-S-T-E-H-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 108,721st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Draufstehen is a German verb meaning “to stand on” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does draufstehen mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    colloquialto stand on

  2. 2

    colloquialto be written on

  3. 3

    colloquialto like it, to love it

    Du stehst drauf, wenn ich dir die Schultern massiere.

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of draufstehen

  • steht drauf present singular third-person
  • stand drauf past
  • draufgestanden participle past
  • stände drauf past subjunctive
  • stünde drauf past subjunctive
  • haben auxiliary
  • sein auxiliary
  • haben or sein auxiliary
  • draufstehend participle present
  • draufzustehen infinitive infinitive-zu
  • stehe drauf first-person indicative present
  • stehen drauf first-person indicative plural
  • stehst drauf indicative present second-person
  • stehest drauf second-person singular subjunctive
  • stehet drauf plural second-person subjunctive
  • standen drauf first-person indicative plural
  • ständen drauf first-person plural subjunctive
  • stünden drauf first-person plural subjunctive

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is draufstehen in German?

draufstehen appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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