A cluttered backstage full of props to find: tap each object in the picture, then give it its article.
1A compound takes the gender of its last part
2Feminine endings: -e is usually die
3-er tools are der — but watch the ones that are not
Why this matters
A picture hunt instead of a deck: the cluttered backstage of an old theatre, where the props, costumes and stage machinery wait for the next show, with 32 things to find in it, every one a precise noun you rarely meet in a textbook — der Flaschenzug under the ceiling, die Nebelmaschine on the floor, das Steckenpferd by the director’s chair, der Schrankkoffer in the corner. 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 ___ Nebelmaschine?), 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
Theatre words are built from pieces, and the last piece decides the article. Licht + Pult: das Pult, so das Lichtpult. Kleider + Ständer: der Ständer, so der Kleiderständer. The same ending gives the same gender: das Lichtpult and das Notenpult.
das Notenpult, Plural: -emusic stand (das Pult)
der Kleiderständerclothes rack (der Ständer)
Quick check
Schrankkoffer steht offen in der Ecke.
Rule · 2 of 3
Feminine endings: -e is usually die
Most two-syllable nouns ending in -e are feminine, and this room is full of them: die Kulisse, die Perücke, die Maske, die Krone. But die Trommel is feminine too, so do not expect every die word to end in -e. Nouns in -ung, -heit and -keit are always die.
die Perücke, Plural: -nwig
die Kulisse, Plural: -nscenery flat
Quick check
Which article goes with Krone?
Watch out · 3 of 3
-er tools are der — but watch the ones that are not
Things that do a job and end in -er are masculine: der Scheinwerfer, der Feuerlöscher, der Kronleuchter. Do not let that pull die Leiter along: it ends in -er too, but it is feminine, and its gender has to be learned with the word.
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