das Datum
Meaning in English: date
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Welches Datum haben wir heute?
What's the date today?
Der, die or das?
Datum is neuter: das Datum. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -um are das in 17 of 24 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Datum in the top 5,000
These forms of Datum are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Bitte speichern Sie Ihre Daten regelmäßig.
Please save your data regularly.
How common is Datum?
Datum is number 3,362 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 40,000 words. Its most frequent form is Daten (#148).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,358veröffentlichtenpublished (past tense, plural)
- 3,359Dateienfiles
- 3,360Starsstars, celebrities
- 3,361buchento book
- 3,362das Datumdate
- 3,363der Standardstandard
- 3,364wahrgenommenperceived, noticed
- 3,365die Wahrnehmungperception
- 3,366inhaltlichin terms of content
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,362
- The most common German nouns#1,422
- German A1 vocabulary#674
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#175
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.