Account

Account

German

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English account. The alternative pronunciations are due to the fact that German has no native initial /ə/ (though in the case of /ɛ-/ perhaps also to a falsely assumed English pronunciation).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈkaʊ̯nt/, (also) /ɛˈkaʊ̯nt/, /aˈkaʊ̯nt/
  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Noun

Account m or (uncommon) n (strong, genitive Accounts, plural Accounts)

  1. (computing, Internet) user account
    Synonyms: Benutzerkonto, Konto, (redundant, but not rare) Benutzeraccount
    • 2022 May, Gunther Hempel, Andreas Weissenbacher, Sebastian N. Stehr, “COVID-19: eine Chance zur Digitalisierung der Lehre?”, in Der Anaesthesist, volume 71, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 342:
      Alle Studierenden bekamen automatisch einen Account, der mit den bestehenden individuellen Log-in-Daten für das Studierendenportal verknüpft war.
      Every student automatically received an account that was connected to the existing individual login data for the student portal.

Declension

Declension of Account [masculine // neuter (uncommon), strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der, das die
genitive eines des der
dative einem dem den
accusative einen, ein den, das die

Further reading

  • “Account”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)
  • “Account” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Account” in Duden online
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