das Update
Meaning in English: update
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Nach dem Update läuft das Handy langsamer.
The phone is slower after the update.
Der, die or das?
Update is neuter: das Update. 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.
How common is Update?
Update is number 2,231 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 41 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,227das Konto(bank) account
- 2,228das Klimaclimate
- 2,229dauerhaftpermanent, lasting
- 2,230bestandexisted; consisted; passed (exam)
- 2,231das Updateupdate
- 2,232berücksichtigento take into account, to consider
- 2,233ehebefore (conjunction)
- 2,234die Teilhabeparticipation, inclusion
- 2,235die Lustdesire, wish; 'feel like'
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,231
- The most common German nouns#920
- German B1 vocabulary#715
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#117
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.