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Artikel im Nominativ
Lesson · 5 rules · about 5 min
Every German noun wears a der, die or das — learn the pair together and you'll never have to guess.
- 1der / die / das — and always learn them together
- 2ein for der and das, eine for die
- 3No article at all for jobs, nationalities and 'some'
- 4Endings that give the gender away
- 5kein, keine — “not a”, “no”
Why this matters
Every German noun belongs to one of three genders — masculine (der), feminine (die) or neuter (das) — and the gender is not about meaning: das Mädchen (the girl) is neuter, der Tisch (the table) is masculine. There is no way round it: you learn every noun together with its article, like a first name and a surname. This quiz is the nominative, the form for the subject of a sentence and after sein: der Mann ist hier, das ist ein Mann. The indefinite article (a/an) is ein for der- and das-words and eine for die-words, and the plural of 'the' is always die, whatever the gender.
bestimmt (der/die/das)
Mann ist hier.
The man is here.
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