Stall
German, noun/ʃtal/
Stall is spelled S-T-A-L-L (5 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written German, the 8,348th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stall is a German masculine noun meaning “stable, sty, shed, barn (building for keeping animals of all sorts); stall, sty (compartment within such a building); (loosely) pen (small…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Raum für den Aufenthalt von Haustieren”.
What does Stall mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestable, sty, shed, barn (building for keeping animals of all sorts); stall, sty (compartment within such a building); (loosely) pen (small outdoors area for keeping animals, properly Pferch)
- 2
masculineellipsis of Hosenstall (“fly of trousers”)
- 3
masculineobsoletesynonym of Stelle, place something is situated, stead (occasionally with implication that something is “standing”, gestellt)
- 4
masculineellipsis of Burgstall (“a meagre remainder of a castle less than a ruin”), originally “the place of a castle”
- 5
archaicmasculinestale, i.e. the urine of horses or their act of urination (so called because they micturate, stallen, while standing, whereas they defecate in locomotion)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Raum für den Aufenthalt von Haustieren 2. in der Aerodynamik, ein Effekt des Strömungsabrisses in der Aerodynamik 3. Burgstall; Ruine einer Burg 4. organisatorische Einheit von Personen, Tieren und/oder Technik
noun: 1. von Pferden stammender Urin
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 Stall
- Stalles genitive
- Stalls genitive
- Ställe plural
- Ställchen diminutive neuter
- Stalle dative singular
- Ställen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Stall?
- /ʃtal/
- [ʃtal]
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Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Stall
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Stall in German?
Stall appears 8.1 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).