schlaftrunken
German, adjective
schlaftrunken is spelled S-C-H-L-A-F-T-R-U-N-K-E-N (13 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 116,815th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schlaftrunken is a German adjective meaning “drowsy, sleep-drunk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Schlaftrünken is a different word: “dative plural of Schlaftrunk”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “noch vom Schlaf benommen; durch Müdigkeit hervorgerufenes Gefühl, als sei man betrunken”.
What does schlaftrunken mean in English?
adjective
- 1
drowsy, sleep-drunk
noun
- 1
dative plural of Schlaftrunk
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. noch vom Schlaf benommen; durch Müdigkeit hervorgerufenes Gefühl, als sei man betrunken
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 schlaftrunken
- schlaftrunkener masculine nominative singular
- am schlaftrunkensten superlative
- schlaftrunkner positive nominative strong
- schlaftrunkene positive nominative strong
- schlaftrunkne positive nominative strong
- schlaftrunkenes positive nominative strong
- schlaftrunknes positive nominative strong
- schlaftrunkenen positive genitive strong
- schlaftrunknen positive genitive strong
- schlaftrunkenem positive dative strong
- schlaftrunknem positive dative strong
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is schlaftrunken in German?
schlaftrunken 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).