Apparat
German, noun/apaˈʁaːt/
Apparat is spelled A-P-P-A-R-A-T (7 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written German, the 11,619th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apparat is a German masculine noun meaning “apparatus, device, machine (complex instrument)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “technisches Gebilde von höherer Komplexität”.
What does Apparat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineapparatus, device, machine (complex instrument)
- 2
masculineapparat, apparatus (organisation, especially bureaucratic)
- 3
masculinethe entirety of an editor's critical notes to a text, (loosely also) other appended information, such as indices etc.
- 4
datedmasculineshort for Telefonapparat (“telephone”)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. technisches Gebilde von höherer Komplexität 2. funktionell zusammengehörige Organe 3. Vorhandensein eines Fundus von Personal, Material und/oder Methoden, um mit Problemen, die auftreten können, „fertig zu werden“ 4. kurz für bestimmte Apparate, beispielsweise: Fotoapparat, Telefonapparat
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 Apparat
- Apparates genitive
- Apparats genitive
- Apparate plural
- Apparaten dative definite plural
- App. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Apparat?
- /apaˈʁaːt/
- [apaˈʁaːt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Apparat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Apparat in German?
Apparat appears 5.4 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).