strammstehen
German, verb[ˈʃtʁamˌʃteːən]
strammstehen is spelled S-T-R-A-M-M-S-T-E-H-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written German, the 192,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Strammstehen is a German verb meaning “to stand at attention” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine stramme Haltung einnehmen (besonders beim Militär)”.
What does strammstehen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stand at attention
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine stramme Haltung einnehmen (besonders beim Militär)
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 strammstehen
- steht stramm present singular third-person
- stand stramm past
- strammgestanden participle past
- stände stramm past subjunctive
- stünde stramm past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- sein auxiliary
- haben or sein auxiliary
- strammstehend participle present
- strammzustehen infinitive infinitive-zu
- stehe stramm first-person indicative present
- stehen stramm first-person indicative plural
- stehst stramm indicative present second-person
- stehest stramm second-person singular subjunctive
- stehet stramm plural second-person subjunctive
- standen stramm first-person indicative plural
- ständen stramm first-person plural subjunctive
- stünden stramm first-person plural subjunctive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce strammstehen?
- [ˈʃtʁamˌʃteːən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is strammstehen in German?
strammstehen appears about once in every 12 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).