Start
German, noun
Start is spelled S-T-A-R-T (5 letters) and appears 79 times per million words in written German, the 1,082nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Start is a German masculine noun meaning “start (beginning of a project)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, start is a different word: “singular imperative of starten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “absichtsvoller Beginn einer Tätigkeit/eines Projekts”.
What does Start mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestart (beginning of a project)
- 2
masculinestart (beginning point of a race)
- 3
masculinetakeoff, liftoff (beginning of a flight)
verb
- 1
singular imperative of starten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. absichtsvoller Beginn einer Tätigkeit/eines Projekts 2. Anfang einer Rennstrecke, eines Rennens 3. Abheben eines Fluggeräts
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 Start
- Startes genitive
- Starts genitive
- Starte plural
- St. abbreviation
- Starten dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Start
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Start in German?
Start appears 79 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).