Text
German, noun/tɛkst/
Text is spelled T-E-X-T (4 letters) and appears 95 times per million words in written German, the 912th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Text is a German masculine noun meaning “text (writing consisting of several sentences and forming a discrete unit)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “mündliche oder schriftliche Folge von Sätzen, die miteinander syntaktisch und semantisch verbunden sind…”.
What does Text mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetext (writing consisting of several sentences and forming a discrete unit)
- 2
masculinetext (passage of a larger opus, often Scripture, examined and interpreted as a unit)
- 3
masculinelyrics, lines (words of a song, film, etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mündliche oder schriftliche Folge von Sätzen, die miteinander syntaktisch und semantisch verbunden sind (Kohärenz, Kohäsion), eine abgeschlossene Einheit bilden (Kompletion) und eine bestimmte kommunikative Funktion (Textfunktion) erfüllen 2. Sprachinformation
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 Text
- Textes genitive
- Texts genitive
- Texte plural
- Texten dative definite plural
- Txt. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Text?
- /tɛkst/
- [tɛkst]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Text
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Text in German?
Text appears 95 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).