personal
German, adjective
personal is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L (8 letters) and appears 34 times per million words in written German, the 2,442nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Personal is a German adjective meaning “personal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Personal is a different word: “staff, personnel, employees”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen/den einzelnen Menschen betreffend”.
What does personal mean in English?
adjective
- 1
personal
noun
- 1
neuterstaff, personnel, employees
- 2
informalneuterellipsis of Personalabteilung (“human resources”)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Belegschaft eines Geschäftes, Unternehmens oder einer Firma 2. Dienstpersonal oder Hauspersonal
adjective: 1. einen/den einzelnen Menschen betreffend 2. in Form einer Person, eines einzelnen Menschen vorhanden seiend
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 personal
- personaler masculine nominative singular
- personale feminine nominative singular
- personales neuter nominative singular
- personalen genitive masculine singular
- personalem dative masculine singular
- der personale definite includes-article masculine
- die personale definite feminine includes-article
- das personale definite includes-article neuter
- die personalen definite includes-article nominative
- des personalen definite genitive includes-article
- der personalen definite feminine genitive
- dem personalen dative definite includes-article
- den personalen dative definite includes-article
- Personals genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to personal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is personal in German?
personal appears 34 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).