Adenin
German, noun/adeˈniːn/
Adenin is spelled A-D-E-N-I-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 172,698th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adenin is a German neuter noun meaning “adenine (a base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “in Pflanzen und Tieren weitverbreiteter Bestandteil der Nukleinsäure”.
What does Adenin mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuteradenine (a base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. in Pflanzen und Tieren weitverbreiteter Bestandteil der Nukleinsäure
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Adenin
- Adenins genitive
- Adenine plural
- Adeninen dative definite plural
- A abbreviation
- Ade abbreviation
- C abbreviation
- H abbreviation
- N abbreviation
- O abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Adenin?
- /adeˈniːn/
- [adeˈniːn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Adenin
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Adenin in German?
Adenin appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).