dun
German, adjective/duːn/
dun is spelled D-U-N (3 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written German, the 37,432nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dun is a German adjective meaning “drunk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “im Zustand nach Genuss von zu viel Alkohol”.
What does dun mean in English?
adjective
- 1
colloquialdrunk
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. im Zustand nach Genuss von zu viel Alkohol
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 dun
- duner masculine nominative singular
- am dunsten superlative
- dune feminine nominative singular
- dunes neuter nominative singular
- dunen genitive masculine singular
- dunem dative masculine singular
- der dune definite includes-article masculine
- die dune definite feminine includes-article
- das dune definite includes-article neuter
- die dunen definite includes-article nominative
- des dunen definite genitive includes-article
- der dunen definite feminine genitive
- dem dunen dative definite includes-article
- duhn alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dun?
- /duːn/
- [duːn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dun in German?
dun appears 1.1 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).