Zustand
German, noun
Zustand is spelled Z-U-S-T-A-N-D (7 letters) and appears 62 times per million words in written German, the 1,391st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zustand is a German masculine noun meaning “condition; state” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, zustand is a different word: “first/third-person singular dependent preterite of zustehen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Art und Weise, wie etwas zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt ist”.
What does Zustand mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecondition; state
in einem einwandfreien Zustand.
- 2
masculinestate pattern
- 3
masculineobsoletepredicate of a sentence
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular dependent preterite of zustehen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Art und Weise, wie etwas zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt ist 2. physischer Zustand 3. psychischer Zustand 4. plötzlich auftretende körperliche Beschwerden oder schlechte Laune
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 Zustand
- Zustandes genitive
- Zustands genitive
- Zustände plural
- Zustande dative singular
- Zuständen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Zustand
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Zustand in German?
Zustand appears 62 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).