Unterstand
German, noun
Unterstand is spelled U-N-T-E-R-S-T-A-N-D (10 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 33,501st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unterstand is a German masculine noun meaning “shelter, bunker, any place in or under which one is protected from adversities from above” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, unterstand is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “überdachter Raum, in dem man oder etwas gegen unerwünschte Einwirkungen oder Beobachtung, Bemerktwerden von…”.
What does Unterstand mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineobsoletehelp, subsidy, prop, support
- 2
masculineshelter, bunker, any place in or under which one is protected from adversities from above
- 3
masculinesubject, as the particularly philosophical antipode of “object”
- 4
archaicmasculinelow-growing types of woods
- 5
masculineobsoletesubservience, low social standing and the like
- 6
masculineraresub-class of a society
- 7
masculineobsoleterareattempt of resistance, or any emprise
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite
- 2
first/third-person singular dependent preterite
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. überdachter Raum, in dem man oder etwas gegen unerwünschte Einwirkungen oder Beobachtung, Bemerktwerden von außen geschützt ist 2. Stelle, wo man sich unterstellen kann 3. besonders gesicherter, oft unterirdischer Schutzraum für Soldaten oder Waffen
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 Unterstand
- Unterstandes genitive
- Unterstands genitive
- Unterstände plural
- Unterstande dative singular
- Unterständen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Unterstand
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Unterstand in German?
Unterstand appears 1.3 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).