Polyglot Dictionary

Festplatte

/ˈfɛstˌplatə/

die noun B1

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
die Festplatten

Meaning

  1. hard drive

    Built from fest (firm) + Platte (plate).

    • Die Festplatte ist voll.

      The hard drive is full.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • fest firm
  • Platte plate

Similar words

Similar in other languages

French

disque dur

disque dur is the French word for the same thing — both mean "hard drive."

Practice

1 What does Festplatte mean?

2 Fill the gap: Die ___ ist voll.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Festplatte?

nouncompound

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