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	Account	die	Accounts
genitive	eines	des	Accounts	der	Accounts
dative	einem	dem	Account	den	Accounts
accusative	einen, ein	den, das	Account	die	Accounts

Further reading

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