A busy family kitchen with 32 everyday things in it: find each one in the picture, then give it its article.
1A compound takes the gender of its last part
2Words in -e are usually die
3-er is often der — but not das Messer and das Fenster
Why this matters
A picture hunt instead of a deck: one lived-in family kitchen with 32 things to find, all of them words you use every day at home — der Kühlschrank, die Pfanne, das Messer, the egg on the table and the spoon on the rail. The prompt asks Wo ist …? and you tap the object in the picture. A tap on bare wall or floor costs nothing; a tap on the wrong object tells you what you hit and you keep looking, and after three misses the right one is shown. Each find shows its label, coloured by its gender (blue der, red die, green das), then leaves a small tick in that colour, so you can see what you have already found. Once you have passed a run, the hunt turns harder: the prompt hides the article (Wo ist ___ Pfanne?), and after the find you choose der, die or das yourself. No object is asked twice in the same run.
Rule · 1 of 3
A compound takes the gender of its last part
Many kitchen words are two words glued together, and the last part decides the article. Kühl + Schrank: der Schrank, so der Kühlschrank. Spül + Becken: das Becken, so das Spülbecken. Cover the front part and look at the end.
die Kaffeemaschinecoffee machine (die Maschine)
das Handtuch, Plural: Handtüchertea towel (das Tuch)
Quick check
Waschmaschine steht neben dem Kühlschrank.
Rule · 2 of 3
Words in -e are usually die
Most nouns that end in -e are feminine. This kitchen is full of them: die Lampe, die Tasse, die Flasche, die Pfanne. When you hear a final -e, try die first.
die Tasse, Plural: -ncup
die Pfanne, Plural: -nfrying pan
Quick check
Which article goes with Flasche?
Watch out · 3 of 3
-er is often der — but not das Messer and das Fenster
Things that do a job and end in -er are usually masculine: der Wasserkocher, der Mülleimer. Two everyday words break the pattern right here in the kitchen: das Messer and das Fenster. Learn them with das from the start.
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