German noun, neuter · CEFR B2

das Format

Meaning in English: format

Rank 2,886 of 5,000noun · dasLevel B22 forms in the list

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Example

In welchem Format soll ich die Datei schicken?

What format should I send the file in?

Der, die or das?

Format is neuter: das Format. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -at are usually der (8 of 11 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Format in the top 5,000

These forms of Format are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Formate#4,878
formatsB2

Das Programm kann alle gängigen Formate öffnen.
The program can open all common formats.

How common is Format?

Format is number 2,886 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 31 times per million words — about once every 33,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,882der Briefletter
  2. 2,883kulturellecultural
  3. 2,884weißenwhite
  4. 2,885die Uniuni, university
  5. 2,886das Formatformat
  6. 2,887startetestarted (past)
  7. 2,888die Newsnews
  8. 2,889ähnlichesimilar
  9. 2,890messento measure

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