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Post

German, noun

Post is spelled P-O-S-T (4 letters) and appears 78 times per million words in written German, the 1,114th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Post is a German feminine noun meaning “mail, post (sent and received letters etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, post is a different word: “second/third-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Infrastruktur, mit deren Hilfe Informationen oder Gegenstände befördert werden”.

What does Post mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininemail, post (sent and received letters etc.)

    Hier ist deine Post.

  2. 2

    femininemail, post, postal service (method of sending mail; organisation for it)

    Sie arbeitet bei der Post.

  3. 3

    femininepost office

    Ich war gerade auf/bei der Post.

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepost (individual message in an Internet forum)

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepost (location on the court)

prefix

as post-
  1. 1

    post-

verb

as post
  1. 1

    second/third-person singular present

  2. 2

    second-person plural present

  3. 3

    plural imperative

  4. 4

    singular imperative of posten

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Infrastruktur, mit deren Hilfe Informationen oder Gegenstände befördert werden 2. Logistikunternehmen (oder früher -Behörden), welche die Post-Infrastruktur^([1]) betreiben 3. von einem der Unternehmen^([2]) Zugestelltes oder Befördertes 4. per digitaler Datenübertragung gesendete oder erhaltene Mitteilung(en) oder Daten

noun: 1. Beitrag in einer Newsgroup oder anderen sozialen Medien im Internet 2. in der Mitte des Spielfelds stehender, die Mannschaft im Angriff führender Spieler

prefix: 1. nach, nachher, hinter

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 Post

  • Posten plural rare
  • Posts genitive

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to Post

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Post in German?

Post appears 78 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).

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