Zaungast
German, noun/ˈt͡saʊ̯nˌɡast/
Zaungast is spelled Z-A-U-N-G-A-S-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written German, the 216,904th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zaungast is a German masculine noun meaning “onlooker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemand, der etwas nur aus der Distanz, von einer Abgrenzung her, aus einer Deckung heraus beobachtet”.
What does Zaungast mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculineonlooker
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. jemand, der etwas nur aus der Distanz, von einer Abgrenzung her, aus einer Deckung heraus beobachtet
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 Zaungast
- Zaungasts genitive
- Zaungastes genitive
- Zaungäste plural
- Zaungaste dative singular
- Zaungästen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Zaungast?
- /ˈt͡saʊ̯nˌɡast/
- [ˈt͡saʊ̯nˌɡast]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Zaungast in German?
Zaungast appears about once in every 15 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).