stillen
German, verb
stillen is spelled S-T-I-L-L-E-N (7 letters) and appears 9.8 times per million words in written German, the 7,170th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stillen is a German verb meaning “to nurse, suckle, breastfeed (a baby)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive masculine/neuter singular of still. With a capital, Stillen is a different word: “gerund of stillen; breastfeeding, suckling”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas (meist Bedürfnisse) beruhigen, abschwächen”.
What does stillen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to nurse, suckle, breastfeed (a baby)
- 2
to quench (a need, e.g. hunger)
- 3
to ease (pain)
adjective
- 1
masculineneuterstrong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- 2
weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- 3
masculinestrong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- 4
strong dative plural
- 5
weak/mixed all-case plural
noun
- 1
neutergerund of stillen; breastfeeding, suckling
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Stille
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas (meist Bedürfnisse) beruhigen, abschwächen 2. einem Kind die Muttermilch geben 3. bewirken, dass etwas aufhört (zu fließen)
noun: 1. Ernährung eines Säuglings an der Brust
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 stillen
- stillt present singular third-person
- stillte past
- gestillt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- stillend participle present
- stille first-person indicative present
- stillst indicative present second-person
- stillest second-person singular subjunctive
- stillet plural second-person subjunctive
- stillten first-person indicative plural
- stilltest indicative preterite second-person
- stilltet indicative plural preterite
- still imperative second-person singular
- habe gestillt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gestillt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- still! imperative singular
- stille! imperative singular
- stillt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to stillen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is stillen in German?
stillen appears 9.8 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).