digital
Meaning in English: digital(ly)
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Die Rechnung bekommen Sie digital per E-Mail.
You'll get the invoice digitally by email.
Forms of digital in the top 5,000
These forms of digital are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Viele Schulen brauchen bessere digitale Geräte.
Many schools need better digital devices.
Im digitalen Zeitalter schreibt kaum jemand Briefe.
In the digital age hardly anyone writes letters.
Die Schule soll digitaler werden.
The school is supposed to become more digital.
Wir brauchen ein digitales Formular statt Papier.
We need a digital form instead of paper.
How common is digital?
digital is number 1,204 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 76 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words. Its most frequent form is digitale (#556).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,200besuchento visit, to attend
- 1,201unbedingtabsolutely, by all means
- 1,202vertretento represent, to stand in for
- 1,203nachhaltigesustainable
- 1,204digitaldigital(ly)
- 1,205die Öffentlichkeitthe public
- 1,206vollständigcomplete, fully
- 1,207das Netzwerknetwork
- 1,208die Runderound, lap
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,204
- The most common German adjectives#168
- German B1 vocabulary#356
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.