adjective
digital
B1
'digital' means 'digital' (relating to electronic data) and also refers to numeric representations. Common antonym 'analog'. It's a gradable adjective: comparative 'digitaler', superlative 'am digitalsten'. Used across contexts: technology, media, measurements; not a participle, regular declension as adjective and widely used in everyday and technical language.
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Die Schule stellte auf digitale Lehrbücher um, weil die Bibliothek dadurch Platz sparen wollte.
The school switched to digital textbooks because the library wanted to save space.
Viele Firmen bieten digitale Dienstleistungen an.
Many companies offer digital services.
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Picture a pixelated screen or binary code when you hear 'digital'.
Same as English 'digital' — the word is a cognate.
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Used both attributively (digitale Dienstleistungen) and predicatively (Die Lösung ist digital). Cognate with English; declension depends on gender, case, and number.