File

See also: file

English

Proper noun

File (plural Files)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, File is the 16881^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1688 individuals. File is most common among White (91.05%) individuals.

Anagrams

• flie, elif, life, lief, Life, Fiel

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English file.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faɪ̯l/
• Homophones: feil (general), Pfeil (northern and central Germany)

Noun

File n or (rare) m (strong, genitive Files, plural Files)

1. (computing, slang, else uncommon) file

   Synonym: (normal word) Datei

Declension

Declension of File [neuter // masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das, der	File	die	Files
genitive	eines	des	Files	der	Files
dative	einem	dem	File	den	Files
accusative	ein, einen	das, den	File	die	Files

Further reading

• “File” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “File” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “File” in Duden online
• File on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de