verstohlen
German, adjective/fɛɐ̯ˈʃtoːlən/
verstohlen is spelled V-E-R-S-T-O-H-L-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 99,595th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verstohlen is a German adjective meaning “furtive, surreptitious” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas so tun, dass es von anderen möglichst nicht bemerkt wird”.
What does verstohlen mean in English?
adjective
- 1
furtive, surreptitious
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. etwas so tun, dass es von anderen möglichst nicht bemerkt wird
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 verstohlen
- verstohlener masculine nominative singular
- am verstohlensten superlative
- verstohlene feminine nominative singular
- verstohlenes neuter nominative singular
- verstohlenen genitive masculine singular
- verstohlenem dative masculine singular
- der verstohlene definite includes-article masculine
- die verstohlene definite feminine includes-article
- das verstohlene definite includes-article neuter
- die verstohlenen definite includes-article nominative
- des verstohlenen definite genitive includes-article
- der verstohlenen definite feminine genitive
- dem verstohlenen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce verstohlen?
- /fɛɐ̯ˈʃtoːlən/
- [fɛɐ̯ˈʃtoːlən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to verstohlen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verstohlen in German?
verstohlen appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).