Staub
German, noun
Staub is spelled S-T-A-U-B (5 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written German, the 5,698th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Staub is a German masculine noun meaning “dust” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, stäub is a different word: “singular imperative of stäuben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “fein verteilte, kleine feste Partikel, die in der Luft schweben oder sich ablagern”.
What does Staub mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedust
verb
- 1
singular imperative of stäuben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fein verteilte, kleine feste Partikel, die in der Luft schweben oder sich ablagern 2. Nichtigkeit/Wertlosigkeit
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 Staub
- Staubes genitive
- Staubs genitive
- Stäube plural
- Staube plural
- Stäubchen diminutive neuter
- Stäublein diminutive neuter
- Stäuben dative definite plural
- Stauben dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Staub
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Staub in German?
Staub appears 13 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).