German word

Album

Pronunciation

IPA/ˈalbʊm/

Meaning

  • neuter nounphoto album

Example

Ich blättere oft in meinem Album.

I often leaf through my photo album.

Illustration for Album (photo album)

More examples

Zeig mir bitte dein Album.

Please show me your album.

Core concept

A curated collection gathered into one orderly whole, whether browsed page by page or heard track by track.

Common phrases

  • im Album blättern

    flip through the album

  • Fotos ins Album kleben

    stick photos in the album

  • das Album zeigen

    show the album

Similar words

Foto: One picture taken with a camera.
Fotoalbum: A book designed to hold photographs on facing pages.
Fotobuch: A book of photographs printed and bound from digital files.

Definition in German

Album bezeichnet ein meist gebundenes Buch oder Heft zur Aufbewahrung von Fotografien oder Sammelobjekten und zugleich eine Zusammenstellung von Liedern als Veröffentlichung.

Word origin

German Album was borrowed from Latin album, a white writing tablet, and extended to a collected set of photographs, objects, or songs.

Usage tips

  • Album is neuter: das Album, with plural die Alben; the plural uses -en rather than the English ending -s.

Other meanings

  • music albumnoun

Opposites

  • Einzelbildsingle imagenoun

Related words

  • Albumcoveralbum covernoun
  • Albumseitealbum pagenoun

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