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Stunde

German, noun

Stunde is spelled S-T-U-N-D-E (6 letters) and appears 120 times per million words in written German, the 726th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stunde is a German feminine noun meaning “hour (unit of time consisting of 60 minutes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, stünde is a different word: “first/third-person singular subjunctive II of stehen”. In lower case, stunde is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Zeiteinheit, entspricht dem 24. Teil eines Tages”.

What does Stunde mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininehour (unit of time consisting of 60 minutes)

    Der Film dauert drei Stunden.

  2. 2

    datedfemininehour, moment, time (point in time)

    Bitte für uns Sünder, jetzt und in der Stunde unsres Todes.

  3. 3

    femininelesson; class (teaching unit, usually between 45 and 90 minutes)

    Ich muss jetzt zur Klavierstunde.

verb

as stünde
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular subjunctive II of stehen

verb

as stunde
  1. 1

    first-person singular present

  2. 2

    first/third-person singular subjunctive I

  3. 3

    singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Zeiteinheit, entspricht dem 24. Teil eines Tages 2. Zeitpunkt, (ungenauer als unter ^([1]) gefasste) Zeitspanne: Augenblick, Moment 3. wiederkehrender oder besonderer Termin, zum Beispiel Unterrichtsstunden oder Aktuelle Stunden 4. eine Unterrichtseinheit (in Deutschland zu meist 45 Minuten, in Österreich 50 Minuten)

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 Stunde

  • Stunden plural
  • Stündchen diminutive neuter
  • Stündlein diminutive neuter
  • Stunderl diminutive neuter
  • h abbreviation
  • Std. abbreviation

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to Stunde

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Stunde in German?

Stunde appears 120 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).

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