stieren
German, verb
stieren is spelled S-T-I-E-R-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 104,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stieren is a German verb meaning “to stare at” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Stieren is a different word: “dative plural of Stier”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “starr blicken, starren”.
What does stieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stare at
verb
- 1
Austriato poke around, to search about
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Stier
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. starr blicken, starren 2. nach dem Stier brünstig sein 3. herumstöbern 4. ärgern, zuwider sein
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 stieren
- stiert present singular third-person
- stierte past
- gestiert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- stierend participle present
- stiere first-person indicative present
- stierst indicative present second-person
- stierest second-person singular subjunctive
- stieret plural second-person subjunctive
- stierten first-person indicative plural
- stiertest indicative preterite second-person
- stiertet indicative plural preterite
- stier imperative second-person singular
- habe gestiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gestiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- stiere! imperative singular
- stier! imperative singular
- stiert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is stieren in German?
stieren appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).