daten
German, verb
daten is spelled D-A-T-E-N (5 letters) and appears 105 times per million words in written German, the 820th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Daten is a German verb meaning “to date” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Daten is a different word: “data, plural of Datum (“piece of information”)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine andere Person zu einem Rendezvous (Date) treffen”.
What does daten mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto date
noun
- 1
neuterdata, plural of Datum (“piece of information”)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sammlung ermittelter/gewonnener Messwerte oder auch statistischer Angaben zu etwas 2. strukturierte Information 3. Bestand an Information, die mathematisch hilfreich für einen Rechenvorgang ist
verb: 1. eine andere Person zu einem Rendezvous (Date) treffen
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 daten
- Data alternative archaic
- datet present singular third-person
- datete past
- gedatet participle past
- gedated participle past
- haben auxiliary
- datend participle present
- date first-person indicative present
- datest indicative present second-person
- dateten first-person indicative plural
- datetest indicative preterite second-person
- datetet indicative plural preterite
- dat imperative second-person singular
- date! imperative singular
- datet! imperative plural
- gedatet haben active infinitive perfect
- gedatet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- gedatet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to daten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is daten in German?
daten appears 105 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).