das Format
Meaning in English: format
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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:
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
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,886
- The most common German nouns#1,222
- German B2 vocabulary#573
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#146
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.