stunden

See also: Stunden and stünden

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃtʊndn̩/
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  • Homophone: Stunden

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German stunden.

Verb

stunden (weak, third-person singular present stundet, past tense stundete, past participle gestundet, auxiliary haben)

  1. to defer (due date; performance upon an obligation)
    • 1964 [1953], Ingeborg Bachmann, Die gestundete Zeit, page 16:
      Es kommen härtere Tagen. / Die auf Widerruf gestundete Zeit / wird sichtbar am Horizont.
      Day that are harder come. / The time postponed revocably / becomes apparent on horizon
Conjugation
  • Stundung

Etymology 2

Verb

stunden

  1. archaic form of standen, first/third-person plural preterite of stehen

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

stunden

  1. alternative form of stound: various spans of time

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

stunden m or f

  1. definite masculine singular of stund

Swedish

Noun

stunden

  1. definite singular of stund

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