stoppen
German, verb/ˈʃtɔpən/
stoppen is spelled S-T-O-P-P-E-N (7 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written German, the 3,959th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stoppen is a German verb meaning “to stop” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “zum Stehen bringen oder zum Stehen gebracht werden”.
What does stoppen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stop
Wir müssen diese Entwicklung stoppen.
- 2
colloquialalternative form of stopfen (“to stuff, to plug”)
Musste dein Zeug da so unvorsichtig reinstoppen?
- 3
to measure time with a stopwatch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zum Stehen bringen oder zum Stehen gebracht werden 2. aufhören etwas zu tun oder dazu gebracht werden, mit etwas aufzuhören 3. mit einer Stoppuhr die genaue Zeit nehmen
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 stoppen
- stoppt present singular third-person
- stoppte past
- gestoppt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- stoppend participle present
- stoppe first-person indicative present
- stoppst indicative present second-person
- stoppest second-person singular subjunctive
- stoppet plural second-person subjunctive
- stoppten first-person indicative plural
- stopptest indicative preterite second-person
- stopptet indicative plural preterite
- stopp imperative second-person singular
- habe gestoppt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gestoppt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- stopp! imperative singular
- stoppe! imperative singular
- stoppt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce stoppen?
- /ˈʃtɔpən/
- [ˈʃtɔpən]
- [ˈʃtɔpm̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to stoppen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is stoppen in German?
stoppen appears 20 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).