Stunde

Meaning

1. (feminine) hour (unit of time consisting of 60 minutes)
2. (dated, feminine) hour, moment, time (point in time)
3. (feminine) lesson; class (teaching unit, usually between 45 and 90 minutes)

Concepts

hour

time

⌚

lesson

moment

period

season

time of the year

hr

one hour

time hour class period

hour

hour

instant

occasion

o’clock

Synonyms

Uhr

Zeit

⌚

Uhrzeit

⌚

Vierundzwanzigstel eines Tages

sechzig Minuten

Jahreszeit

Unterrichtsstunde

Weile

Zeitangabe

Zeitpunkt

Stunde lang

halbe Doppelstunde

Abschnitt

Stunde, … Uhr

Gelegenheit

Lehrstunde

Lektion

Periode

Unterricht

Translations

hora

heure

ora

hora

uur

ώρα

saat

⌚

hora

hora

ora

ساعة

seet

ders

lezione

Dialects

Zürich

stund

Lucerne

stund

Aargau

stond

Appenzell Ausserrhoden

stund

Basel-Landschaft

stund

Graubünden

stund

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʃtʊndə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: stunde

Inherited from Old High German: stunta

Cognate with Catalan: estona

Cognate with Hunsrik: Stunn

Cognate with Dutch: stond

Cognate with English: stound

Cognate with Danish: stund

Cognate with Norwegian: stund

Cognate with Northern Sami: stund

Cognate with Finnish: tunti

In summary

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.

Sentences

Das Umrüsten dauert etwa eine Stunde .

The conversion takes about an hour.