Stunde

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German stunde, from Old High German stunta, from Proto-West Germanic *stundu, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”). Cognate with Catalan estona (“while”), Hunsrik Stunn (“while, hour”), Low German Stunn, Stünn (“hour”), dated Dutch stond (“time”), English stound (“hour, while, moment, time”), Danish stund (“while”), Norwegian stund (“while”), Northern Sami stund (“while”), Finnish tunti (“hour”). More at stound. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃtʊndə/ === Noun === Stunde f (genitive Stunde, plural Stunden, diminutive Stündchen n or Stündlein n) hour (unit of time consisting of 60 minutes) (dated) hour, moment, time (point in time) lesson; class (teaching unit, usually between 45 and 90 minutes) ==== Usage notes ==== The term Zeitstunde (literally “time-hour”) may be used in education contexts to distinguish sense 1 from sense 3. ==== Declension ==== ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Kashubian: sztënia → Lower Sorbian: štunda → Yiddish: שטונדע (shtunde) → Latvian: stunda → Slovincian: sztënja ==== See also ==== Uhr f (hour as a unit of clock time) === Further reading === “Stunde”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Stunde” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Stunde” in Duden online Stunde on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de