Betrag
German, noun
Betrag is spelled B-E-T-R-A-G (6 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written German, the 3,812th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Betrag is a German masculine noun meaning “amount, sum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, betrag is a different word: “singular imperative of betragen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Größe oder Umfang einer Menge, ein bestimmtes Ausmaß”.
What does Betrag mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineamount, sum
- 2
masculinethe magnitude or length of a vector
verb
- 1
singular imperative of betragen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of betragen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Größe oder Umfang einer Menge, ein bestimmtes Ausmaß 2. eine bestimmte Summe an Geld 3. Abstand einer Zahl zum Nullpunkt 4. Länge (eines Vektors)
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 Betrag
- Betrages genitive
- Betrags genitive
- Beträge plural
- Betrage dative singular
- Beträgen dative definite plural
- [3] |a| (Betrag von a) symbol
- [4] |v|, |⃑v| (Betrag des Vektors v) symbol
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Betrag
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Betrag in German?
Betrag appears 21 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).