entstauben
German, verb
entstauben is spelled E-N-T-S-T-A-U-B-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 142,439th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entstauben is a German verb meaning “to dust, to dust off” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Entstauben is a different word: “gerund of entstauben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “von Staub befreien”.
What does entstauben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dust, to dust off
noun
- 1
neutergerund of entstauben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. von Staub befreien 2. modernisieren
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 entstauben
- entstaubt present singular third-person
- entstaubte past
- haben auxiliary
- entstaubend participle present
- entstaube first-person indicative present
- entstaubst indicative present second-person
- entstaubest second-person singular subjunctive
- entstaubet plural second-person subjunctive
- entstaubten first-person indicative plural
- entstaubtest indicative preterite second-person
- entstaubtet indicative plural preterite
- entstaub imperative second-person singular
- habe entstaubt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben entstaubt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- entstaube! imperative singular
- entstaubt! imperative plural
- entstaubt haben active infinitive perfect
- entstaubt 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 entstauben
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is entstauben in German?
entstauben appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).