staunen
German, verb
staunen is spelled S-T-A-U-N-E-N (7 letters) and appears 6.0 times per million words in written German, the 10,637th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Staunen is a German verb meaning “to be amazed or astonished; to wonder or marvel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Staunen is a different word: “astonishment, amazement”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich über etwas wundern”.
What does staunen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be amazed or astonished; to wonder or marvel
Die Zuschauer staunten über seine Kunststücke.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of staunen
- 2
neuterastonishment, amazement
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich über etwas wundern
noun: 1. Verwunderung, die in Wort und besonders in Gestik und Mimik ausgedrückt wird
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 staunen
- staunt present singular third-person
- staunte past
- gestaunt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- staunend participle present
- staune first-person indicative present
- staunst indicative present second-person
- staunest second-person singular subjunctive
- staunet plural second-person subjunctive
- staunten first-person indicative plural
- stauntest indicative preterite second-person
- stauntet indicative plural preterite
- staun imperative second-person singular
- habe gestaunt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gestaunt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- staun! imperative singular
- staune! imperative singular
- staunt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to staunen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is staunen in German?
staunen appears 6.0 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).