wegstehlen
German, verb
wegstehlen is spelled W-E-G-S-T-E-H-L-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 85 million words in written German, the 579,518th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wegstehlen is a German verb meaning “to slip away” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Wegstehlen is a different word: “gerund of wegstehlen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “still und leise, heimlich weggehen”.
What does wegstehlen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to slip away
noun
- 1
neutergerund of wegstehlen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. still und leise, heimlich weggehen 2. unerlaubt wegnehmen, klauen
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 wegstehlen
- stiehlt weg present singular third-person
- stahl weg past
- weggestohlen participle past
- stähle weg past subjunctive
- stöhle weg past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- 4 strong
- wegstehlend participle present
- wegzustehlen infinitive infinitive-zu
- stehle weg first-person indicative present
- stehlen weg first-person indicative plural
- stiehlst weg indicative present second-person
- stehlt weg indicative plural present
- stehlest weg second-person singular subjunctive
- stehlet weg plural second-person subjunctive
- stahlen weg first-person indicative plural
- stählen weg first-person formal plural
- stöhlen weg first-person formal plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is wegstehlen in German?
wegstehlen appears about once in every 85 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).