Taste
German, noun
Taste is spelled T-A-S-T-E (5 letters) and appears 5.0 times per million words in written German, the 12,256th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Taste is a German feminine noun meaning “key, button (on a piano, keyboard, etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, taste is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Teil einer Tastatur oder einer Klaviatur, der Druck einer Taste hat ein spezifisches Ereignis zur Folge, er…”.
What does Taste mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininekey, button (on a piano, keyboard, etc.)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Teil einer Tastatur oder einer Klaviatur, der Druck einer Taste hat ein spezifisches Ereignis zur Folge, er erzeugt zum Beispiel einen Buchstaben oder einen Ton 2. Bedienelement von Geräten, das durch Druck ein Ereignis auslöst
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 Taste
- Tasten plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Taste
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Taste in German?
Taste appears 5.0 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).