Stück

Meaning

1. (invariable, neuter, strong) one, item, piece (of something countable; often untranslated in English)
2. (invariable, neuter, strong) head (a single animal)
3. (declinable, invariable, neuter, strong) piece (portion of something bigger or of an uncountable mass)
4. (neuter, strong) Something of artistic or historic value; piece of art (of any kind, but less common of novels and films)
5. (neuter, strong) a person, often female
6. (neuter, obsolete, strong) piece (artillery gun)

Concepts

piece

bit

part

slice

fragment

lump

component

chip

section

chunk

head

item

bar

play

scrap

portion

cake

🍰

clod

division

flake

fleck

hunk

stick

strip

wedge

detail

details

dimension

district

only one

dot

element

fillet

one thin flat object

one sheet

clump

gobbet

graft

clause

counter for large animals

intercept

bundle

lamina

length

bite

mass

measure

notch

number

🔢

one

Synonyms

Teil

Fleck

Fragment

Bruchstück

Glied

Stückchen

Partie

Span

Abschnitt

Tropfen

Korn

Brösel

Zeitrechnung

Bruch

Zeitalter

Ära

Anteil

Scheibe

Bestandteil

Ausschnitt

Splitter

Brocken

Theaterstück

Einzelheit

Drama

Punkt

Klumpen

Fetzen

Element

Detail

Segment

Haufen

Happen

Bissen

Musikstück

Komponente

Ecke

Ding

Tafel

Bereich

Spiel

Strecke

Baustein

Portion

Schauspiel

Block

Gegenstand

Gegend

Menge

Modul

Translations

stuk

morceau

pedazo

pièce

deel

pezzo

pieza

pedaço

trozo

parte

fragment

partie

parça

pezzetto

parte

Dialects

Aargau

schnäfeli

Aargau

schnäfu

Aargau

stück

Basel-Landschaft

stigg

Basel-Landschaft

stugg

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃtʏk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: stucke

Inherited from Old High German: stucki

Cognate with Hunsrik: Stick

Cognate with Dutch: stuk

Cognate with Luxembourgish: Stéck

Cognate with Yiddish: שטיק

Cognate with English: steck

In summary

Inherited from Middle High German stücke, from Old High German stucki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją. Cognate with Hunsrik Stick, Dutch stuk, Luxembourgish Stéck, Yiddish שטיק (shtik), dialectal English steck (“piece”). Doublet of Stuck.

Sentences

Könnte ich bitte ein Stück Brot haben ?

Could I have a piece of bread, please?

Darf ich euch ein Stück Kuchen anbieten ?

May I offer you a piece of cake?

Ihre erste Rolle bekam sie in dem Stück "State of the Art ".

She got her first role in the play "State of the Art".

Doch war sogar ein Stück Poet in ihm .

But there was even a piece of poet in him.

Dann kann er sich schon einmal ein Stück Seife mit Kordel besorgen .

Then he can get a piece of soap with a cord.