# data
## English
### Alternative forms

* D (electronics)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“I give”). Doublet of date.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, Ireland, US, sometimes: General Australian, New Zealand, General South African, Indic)
** enPR: dā'tə, IPA: /ˈdeɪtə/
** (US) IPA: [ˈdeɪ.ɾə]
*** Audio (US):(file)
** (Indic) IPA: /deːta/, (pain–pane merged) /dejtaː/
** Homophone: dater (non-rhotic, except some South Asian accents)
** Rhymes: -eɪtə
* (US, Canada, Ireland)
** enPR: dăt'ə, IPA: /ˈdætə/
*** (US, Canada) IPA: [ˈdæ.ɾə]
**** Audio (US):(file)
** Rhymes: -ætə
* (General Australian, New Zealand, General South African, UK formal)
** enPR: dä'tə, IPA: /ˈdɑːtə/
** (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: [ˈdäːɾə]
*** Audio (General Australian):(file)
** Homophone: darter (non-rhotic)
** Rhymes: -ɑːtə

### Noun

data
* plural of datum
    Synonym: data points
    Holonym: data set
    These data show clearly that X is correlated with Y, although they tell us nothing about causation.
** 1692, William Molyneux, Edmund Halley, Dioptrica nova‎, London: Benj. Tooke, page 100:First from these Data, let us obtain the Breadth of the Glass e z
* (collectively, uncountable) Information, especially in a scientific or computational context, or with the implication that it is organized.
    This data shows clearly that X is correlated with Y, although it tells us nothing about causation.
** 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]
** 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:Risk is everywhere. […] For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles” […] aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.
* (collectively) Recorded observations that are usually presented in a structured format.
    Near-synonyms: dataset, data set, data points, information
* (computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.
    Coordinate term: information
* (mobile telephony) Ellipsis of mobile data: digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi.
    run out of data

#### Usage notes

* The word data is more often used as an uncountable noun with a singular verb than as a plural noun with singular datum. Usage as a plural noun with a plural verb is more common in certain formal contexts (but not others): it is an unusual exception in computer science and data science but is still often maintained in the medical literature.
* In geodetic and GD&T contexts, the word data is used exclusively in its uncountable senses, whereas the singular datum (referring to a reference point or surface) has the plural datums, not data.
* The definition of data in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary and is meant to distinguish data from information. However, this distinction is often ignored by the computing profession.

#### Hyponyms

* big data
* metadata
* primary data
* raw data

#### Derived terms

* air data
* anecdata
* biodata
* data acquisition
* data analysis
* databack
* databank
* database
* databend
* databook
* data-bound
* databox
* Data Carrier Equipment
* datacast
* datacentric
* Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
* Data Communications Equipment
* data domain
* data dredging
* data-driven
* data element
* data entry
* data farming
* datafication
* datafile
* dataframe
* datafy
* datagram
* data hiding
* datahub
* data integrity
* dataism
* dataist
* dataless
* datalike
* datalink
* datalog
* datalogger
* datalogy
* data maintenance
* data management
* data mining
* data modeling
* datamosh
* datapad
* data path
* datapath
* data path, datapath
* dataphone
* data poisoning
* data processing
* datarati
* data recorder
* data recovery
* datascape
* dataset
* data set
* datasheet
* datasheet, data sheet
* data sink
* datasonde
* data source
* dataspace
* dataspeak
* datasphere
* datathon
* dataveillance
* dataverse
* data visualization
* data warehouse
* eigendata
* flight data recorder
* geodata
* hyperdata
* megadata
* metadata
* microdata
* multidata
* orthodata
* paleodata
* paradata
* pseudodata
* Pure Data
* raw data
* viewdata

#### Descendants

* → Turkish: data

#### Translations
### References

* “data”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. (The American Heritage Dictionary's usage note on 'data')
* John Quiggin: Data is not the plural of datum
* johnaugust.com: ‘Data’ is singular

### Further reading

* data on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* ADAT, TADA, a tad, adat, ta-da, tada

## Afar
### Etymology

Cognate with Saho data.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /daˈta/ [dʌˈtʌ]
* Hyphenation: da‧ta

### Verb

datá
* (stative) be black

#### Antonyms

* qadó (“be white”)

### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “data”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
* Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2013 August) “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics‎, Leiden: Leiden University, page 2
* Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 307

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin data < Latin datus.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈda.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈda.ta]
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

data f (plural dates)
* date (specific moment in time)

#### Further reading

* “data” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “data” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “data”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “data” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

data
* inflection of datar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: da‧ta

### Noun

data
* installment, partial payment

## Chinese
### Etymology

From English data.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): dei$^1$ taa$^4$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: dei$^1$ taa$^4$
*** Yale: dēi tàh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dei$^1$ taa$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: déi$^1$ ta$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /tei̯⁵⁵ tʰaː²¹/

### Noun

data (Hong Kong Cantonese)
* data (information)
* data; mobile data
** Internet connection using mobile data, i.e. not using Wi-Fi
       ni$^1$ go$^3$ wai$^{6-2}$ sau$^1$ dei$^1$ taa$^4$ hou$^2$ maan$^6$. [Jyutping]
       Receiving mobile data connection is very slow at this spot.
** quota or limit of mobile data usage
    爆data [Cantonese] ― baau$^3$ dei$^1$ taa$^4$ [Jyutping] ― to exceed the mobile data usage limit
       ngo$^5$ gam$^1$ go$^3$ jyut$^6$ zung$^6$ jau$^5$ hou$^2$ do$^1$ dei$^1$ taa$^4$ zing$^6$. [Jyutping]
       I still have a lot of [my] quota for mobile data usage left for this month.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdata]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

data n pl (relational adjective datový)
* data
    Synonym: údaje

#### Related terms

* databáze f

### Further reading

* “data”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
* “data”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Noun

data n (singular definite dataet, plural indefinite data)
* datum, data
* curriculum vitae, résumé

#### Inflection
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

data
* plural of datum
    Synonym: datums
* (uncountable) data, information
    Synonym: gegevens

#### Usage notes

Though some speakers use data "information" as a new singular rather than as the plural of datum (“data point”), this is generally prescribed against. This is analogous to media in Dutch, which some speakers treat as a new singular rather than as a plural of medium.

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Latin data.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɑtɑ/, [ˈdɑ̝t̪ɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -ɑtɑ
* Hyphenation: da‧ta

### Noun

data
* data

#### Declension

Possessive forms of data (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
datani
datani
accusative
nom.
datani
datani
gen.
datani
genitive
datani
datojeni dataini $^{rare}$
partitive
dataani
datojani
inessive
datassani
datoissani
elative
datastani
datoistani
illative
dataani
datoihini
adessive
datallani
datoillani
ablative
dataltani
datoiltani
allative
datalleni
datoilleni
essive
datanani
datoinani
translative
datakseni
datoikseni
abessive
datattani
datoittani
instructive
comitative
—datoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
datasi
datasi
accusative
nom.
datasi
datasi
gen.
datasi
genitive
datasi
datojesi dataisi $^{rare}$
partitive
dataasi
datojasi
inessive
datassasi
datoissasi
elative
datastasi
datoistasi
illative
dataasi
datoihisi
adessive
datallasi
datoillasi
ablative
dataltasi
datoiltasi
allative
datallesi
datoillesi
essive
datanasi
datoinasi
translative
dataksesi
datoiksesi
abessive
datattasi
datoittasi
instructive
comitative
—datoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
datamme
datamme
accusative
nom.
datamme
datamme
gen.
datamme
genitive
datamme
datojemme dataimme $^{rare}$
partitive
dataamme
datojamme
inessive
datassamme
datoissamme
elative
datastamme
datoistamme
illative
dataamme
datoihimme
adessive
datallamme
datoillamme
ablative
dataltamme
datoiltamme
allative
datallemme
datoillemme
essive
datanamme
datoinamme
translative
dataksemme
datoiksemme
abessive
datattamme
datoittamme
instructive
comitative
—datoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
datanne
datanne
accusative
nom.
datanne
datanne
gen.
datanne
genitive
datanne
datojenne datainne $^{rare}$
partitive
dataanne
datojanne
inessive
datassanne
datoissanne
elative
datastanne
datoistanne
illative
dataanne
datoihinne
adessive
datallanne
datoillanne
ablative
dataltanne
datoiltanne
allative
datallenne
datoillenne
essive
datananne
datoinanne
translative
dataksenne
datoiksenne
abessive
datattanne
datoittanne
instructive
comitative
—datoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
datansa
datansa
accusative
nom.
datansa
datansa
gen.
datansa
genitive
datansa
datojensa datainsa $^{rare}$
partitive
dataansa
datojaan datojansa
inessive
datassaan datassansa
datoissaan datoissansa
elative
datastaan datastansa
datoistaan datoistansa
illative
dataansa
datoihinsa
adessive
datallaan datallansa
datoillaan datoillansa
ablative
dataltaan dataltansa
datoiltaan datoiltansa
allative
datalleen datallensa
datoilleen datoillensa
essive
datanaan datanansa
datoinaan datoinansa
translative
datakseen dataksensa
datoikseen datoiksensa
abessive
datattaan datattansa
datoittaan datoittansa
instructive
comitative
—datoineen datoinensa :

#### Synonyms

* anne (“datum”) (rare)

#### Derived terms

* data-analyysi
* data-arkisto
* datajournalismi
* datakeskus
* dataliikenne
* datameklari
* datanlouhinta
* datanomi
* datansiirto
* datansiirtoverkko
* datapainotteinen
* dataprojektori
* datasiirto
* datasiirtolaite
* datasiirtoverkko
* datasähkö
* datatalous
* datatekniikka
* datatiedosto
* datatieteilijä
* dataverkko
* dataväylä
* massadata
* metadata
* mobiilidata
* pakettidata
* raakadata

### Further reading

* “data”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /da.ta/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

data
* third-person singular past historic of dater

## Ilocano
### Etymology 1

Cognate with Tagalog hilata.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdata/, [ˈdaː.ta]
* Hyphenation: da‧ta

#### Adjective

dáta
* facing upwards; on one's back

##### Derived terms

* agdadata
* agdata
* agpadata
* idata
* mapadata
* nakadata
* padataen

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *da and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-ta, an enclitic form of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita (“we (inclusive), we (dual)”), whence Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita (“we (inclusive)”). Compare Kankanaey daita (“we (two), you and I”), Pangasinan sikata (“we (two), you and I”), Kapampangan ikata (“we (two), you and I”), Tagalog kata (“we (two), you and I”), Bikol Central kita (“we (inclusive)”), Cebuano kita (“we (inclusive)”), and Maranao sekta (“we (inclusive)”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /daˈta/, [dɐˈta]
* Hyphenation: da‧ta

#### Pronoun

datá
* First-person dual absolutive independent pronoun; we (two); us (two); you and I; you and me
    Synonym: sita
    Data laeng ti adda ti kasar ita nga aldaw. ― It is only us two who have a wedding today.

##### Derived terms

* datdata

##### See also
## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch data, from Latin data.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdata]
* Hyphenation: da‧ta
* Rhymes: -ta, -a

### Noun

data
* datum,
** a fact known from direct observation
** a premise from which conclusions are drawn
* data,
** information, especially in a scientific or computational context, or with the implication that it is organized
** recorded observations that are usually presented in a structured format
** (computing) a representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process

#### Derived terms

* mendata
* mendatakan
* pendata
* pendataan
* data raya

#### Related terms

* datum

### Further reading

* “data” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈda.ta/
* Rhymes: -ata
* Hyphenation: dà‧ta

### Etymology 1

From Late Latin data, from Latin datus.

#### Noun

data f (plural date)
* date (“calendar date”)
    la data di oggi ― today's date

##### Derived terms

* databile
* datare
* datario
* datato
* datazione

##### Related terms

* dare
* dato

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

data
* inflection of datare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Participle

data
* feminine singular of dato

### References

* ↑ data in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Ladin
### Noun

data f (plural dates)
* date (day number of the month)

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* data: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈda.ta/, [ˈd̪ät̪ä]
* data: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈda.ta/, [ˈd̪äːt̪ä]
* datā: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈda.taː/, [ˈd̪ät̪äː]
* datā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈda.ta/, [ˈd̪äːt̪ä]

### Participle

data
* inflection of datus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Participle

datā
* ablative feminine singular of datus

### Noun

data
* nominative/vocative/accusative plural of datum

### References

* "data", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian data.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdaː.ta/

### Noun

data f (plural dati)
* date
* data

#### Related terms

* datarija
* datarju
* ddata

## Middle Irish
### Noun

data m
* sire, father
* foster father, godfather, guardian
    Synonym: aite
* sir

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

## Minangkabau
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *datar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dataʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *dataʀ.

### Adjective

data
* flat

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin data, plural of datum (“gift, present”), neuter past participle of dō (“I give, offer”), from Proto-Italic *didō (“give”), from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti (“to be giving”), from *deh₃- (“give”).

### Noun

data m or n (definite singular dataen or dataet, indefinite plural data, definite plural dataene)
* data
* short form of datateknologi

#### Derived terms

* database
* databehandle
* databehandling
* datablad
* dataillustrasjon
* datamangel
* datamaskin
* dataprogram
* datasimulering
* dataskjerm
* dataspill
* datasystem
* datateknologi
* datavirus
* rådata

### References

* “data” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Latin data, plural of datum.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɑː.tɑ/

#### Noun

data m or n
* plural of datum
data m (definite singular dataen, indefinite plural data or dataar or dataer, definite plural dataane or dataene)
* (plural: data, in the plural or collective and uncountable) data; information, especially in a computational context
* (plural: dataar or dataer, countable) short for datamaskin (“computer”)
* (collective, uncountable) short for datateknologi (“computer technology”)
* (collective, uncountable, mobile telephony) short for mobildata (“mobile data”)

##### Derived terms

* database
* databehandling
* datablad
* dataillustrasjon
* datamaskin
* dataprogram
* datasimulering
* dataskjerm
* dataspel
* datasystem
* datateknologi
* datavirus
* rådata

### Etymology 2

From English date.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²dɛɪ̯.tɑ/

#### Verb

data (present tense datar, past tense data, past participle data, imperative date)
* a-infinitive form of date

### References

* “data” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* tada

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin data.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈda.ta/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ata
* Syllabification: da‧ta

### Noun

data f
* date (point of time at which event takes place; a specific day)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* data in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* data in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈda.tɐ/
* (Northeast Brazil) IPA: /ˈda.ta/
* Rhymes: -atɐ
* Hyphenation: da‧ta

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin data, from Latin datus (“given”). Doublet of dada.

#### Noun

data f (plural datas)
* date (point of time at which a transaction or event takes place)
    Qual é sua data de nascimento? ― What is your date of birth?
* (informal) a large quantity
    Uma data de coisas. ― Lots of things.
* (informal) a lot, a plot of land
    Quero comprar esta data. ― I want to buy this plot of land

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

data
* inflection of datar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French dater.

#### Verb

a data (third-person singular present datează, past participle datat) 1st conjugation
* to date

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

data f
* nominative/accusative definite singular of dată

## Rwanda-Rundi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *tààtá.

### Noun

dātá class 1a (plural bādâtá class 2a)
* my father
* my paternal uncle

#### See also

* so (“your father”)
* se (“his/her father”)
* mama (“my mother”)

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdata/ [ˈd̪a.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -ata
* Syllabification: da‧ta

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin data, from Latin datus.

#### Noun

data f (plural datas)
* date (point of time at which a transaction or event takes place)
    Synonym: (more common) fecha

##### Derived terms

* antedata
* datar
* de larga data

##### Related terms

* dato

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

data
* inflection of datar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “data”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English data.

#### Noun

data class IX (plural data class X)
* data (information, especially in a scientific or computational context)

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Verb

-data (infinitive kudata)
* to crackle
* to miss a desired outcome
* to adhere to something

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of -data :
| Positive present | -nadata |
| Subjunctive | -date |
| Negative | -dati |
| Imperative singular | data |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kudata |
| Negative | kutodata |
Imperatives :
| Singular | data |
| Plural | dateni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hudata |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lidata |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kudata |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tadata |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tadata |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sidate |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngedata |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singedata |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalidata |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalidata |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -medata |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshadata |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jadata |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kidata |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipodata |
| Consecutive | kadata / positive subject concord + -kadata |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kadate |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

### References

* ↑ Petzell, Malin (2005) “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia‎, volume 5, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2009-11-29, page 88 of 85-107: “There are however fully adopted words like data ‘data’ with no visible degree of phonemic substitution even though the pronunciation has gone through a certain degree of swahilisation.”

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin data, from the plural of datum (“that which is given, information, facts at hand, a date in the calendar”).
The sense ”computer” is a clipping of datamaskin.

### Noun

data c
* (uncountable) information, especially encoded information that can be processed by computers
* (colloquial, proscribed) Alternative form of dator (“computer”)
    Det är fel på datan. ― Something's wrong with the computer.
** 1966, Olof Johannesson (pen name of Hannes Alfvén), Sagan om den stora datamaskinen:De första datorna var ju också mycket enkla.The first computers were indeed very simple.

#### Usage notes

* The first definition is rarely inflected, but most often used in its basic form. In the definite form, both neuter (datat) and common gender (datan) forms are used. For the compound indata, Google yields 440,000 hits, but only 2110 for indatan and 1200 for indatat. The Latin singular datum is not used in this sense, because it is already used for ”date (in the calendar)”.
* Swedish lacked a good and short word for computer until dator was proposed in 1967. The colloquial data was used in the 1960s and is still used colloquially today, but is usually proscribed. The form dator is also the plural of data, and the plural definite forms datorerna/datorna are very similar.

#### Derived terms

* datavirus
* trafikdata

### References

* data in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* “Hur kan man använda data och datan? [How are data and datan used?]”, in Frågelådan, Swedish Language Council, 2019 December 28 (last accessed)