Puste
German, noun
Puste is spelled P-U-S-T-E (5 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written German, the 36,861st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Puste is a German feminine noun meaning “breath” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, puste is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Fähigkeit von Lunge, Herz und Kreislauf, dem Körper Sauerstoff zu liefern”.
What does Puste mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialfemininebreath
außer Puste sein
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
- 3
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fähigkeit von Lunge, Herz und Kreislauf, dem Körper Sauerstoff zu liefern 2. Atem
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to Puste
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Puste in German?
Puste 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).