das Smartphone
Meaning in English: smartphone
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Mein Smartphone ist schon wieder leer.
My smartphone's battery is dead again.
Der, die or das?
Smartphone is neuter: das Smartphone. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -e are usually die (170 of 193 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Smartphone in the top 5,000
These forms of Smartphone are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Fast alle Jugendlichen haben heute Smartphones.
Almost all teenagers have smartphones today.
How common is Smartphone?
Smartphone is number 1,493 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 62 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,489die Alternativealternative
- 1,490immerhinat least, after all
- 1,491die Infrastrukturinfrastructure
- 1,492die Unterlagendocuments, papers
- 1,493das Smartphonesmartphone
- 1,494der Handeltrade, retail
- 1,495der Aufbaustructure, setup, construction
- 1,496Ärztedoctors
- 1,497die Vielzahlmultitude, large number
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,493
- The most common German nouns#567
- German A2 vocabulary#346
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#75
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.