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The article for

Gigabyte

das Gigabyte

Gigabyte is a neuter German noun. Its article is das.

Plural
die Gigabyte die Gigabytes

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Why is it das Gigabyte?

Gigabyte ends in -e. Most nouns with this ending are feminine (79% take die), but Gigabyte is an exception: das Gigabyte.

The other -e exceptions
Sense 1
das

Meaning

[1] Computer science, digital technology: a multiple of the data volume unit bycania depending on the convention for 1,000 for 1,000 byte (decimal) or 1,073,741.824 byte (binary)

[1] Informatik, Digitaltechnik: ein Vielfaches der Datenmengeneinheit Byte; je nach Konvention für 1.000.000.000 Byte (dezimal) oder 1.073.741.824 Byte (binär)

Examples

[1] This hard drive has a storage space of 80 Gigabytesä

[1] Diese Festplatte hat einen Speicherplatz von 80 Gigabytes.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ das Gigabyte die Gigabyte die Gigabytes
Genitiv des Gigabyte des Gigabytes der Gigabyte der Gigabytes
Dativ dem Gigabyte den Gigabyte den Gigabytes
Akkusativ das Gigabyte die Gigabyte die Gigabytes

Pronunciation

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