An empty hospital room full of things to find: tap each object in the picture, then give it its article.
1A compound takes the gender of its last part
2Same last part, same article — even when it looks odd
3Things that hold something: der Beutel, der Eimer, der Ständer
Why this matters
A picture hunt instead of a deck: one empty hospital room, the kind you see when you visit someone on a ward, with 32 things to find in it, every one a precise noun you rarely meet in a textbook — der Bettgalgen over the bed, die Schnabeltasse on the bedside cabinet, das Röntgenbild on the wall, der Treteimer by the basin. The prompt asks Wo ist …? and you tap the object in the picture. Each find shows its label, coloured by its gender, then leaves a small tick in that colour, so you can see what you have already found. A tap on bare wall 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. Once you have passed a run, the hunt turns harder: the prompt hides the article (Wo ist ___ Schnabeltasse?), 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
Hospital words are long, but only the last part decides the article. Sauerstoff + Flasche: die Flasche, so die Sauerstoffflasche. Infusion + Ständer: der Ständer, so der Infusionsständer. Ignore the front; read the end.
die Sauerstoffflasche, Plural: -noxygen cylinder (die Flasche)
das Krankenbett, Plural: -enhospital bed (das Bett)
Quick check
Desinfektionsmittelspender hängt neben dem Waschbecken.
Watch out · 2 of 3
Same last part, same article — even when it looks odd
die Wärmflasche is a rubber bag, not a bottle at all, but it ends in die Flasche, so it is feminine. das Kopfkissen and das Klemmbrett follow das Kissen and das Brett. Trust the last word, not what the object looks like.
die Wärmflaschehot-water bottle
das Klemmbrett, Plural: -erclipboard (das Brett)
Quick check
Which article goes with Schnabeltasse?
Memory trick · 3 of 3
Things that hold something: der Beutel, der Eimer, der Ständer
Many containers and holders in this room are masculine: der Infusionsbeutel, der Treteimer, der Infusionsständer, der Nachttisch. Picture a nurse, Herr Beutel, carrying all of them past the bed; say each one with der as he passes.
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