das Handy
Meaning in English: mobile phone, cell phone
False friend: Handy is not “handy”. It is a mobile phone. “Handy” as in useful is praktisch. More false friends.
Example
Mein Handy hat keinen Akku mehr.
My phone's battery is dead.
Der, die or das?
Handy is neuter: das Handy. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Handy?
Handy is number 2,163 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 42 times per million words — about once every 24,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 2,159behaltento keep; to remember
- 2,160reduzierento reduce
- 2,161linkeleft; left-wing (inflected)
- 2,162Bundesländernfederal states (dative plural)
- 2,163das Handymobile phone, cell phone
- 2,164feiertcelebrates
- 2,165WeihnachtenChristmas
- 2,166das Coronaviruscoronavirus
- 2,167voranahead, forward
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,163
- The most common German nouns#883
- German A1 vocabulary#550
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#109
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.