An airport hall with nobody in it: tap each object in the picture, then give it its article.
1A compound takes the gender of its last part
2One pair of sunglasses is one die Brille
3Everything called -wagen rolls in as der
Why this matters
A picture hunt instead of a deck: one airport check-in and gate hall with 32 things to find, from the security check to the window onto the apron — das Röntgengerät, die Fluggastbrücke, der Gepäckwagen, das Triebwerk under the wing. Many of them are long compounds you mostly meet when travelling. 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 ___ Fluggastbrücke?), 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
Airport words stack nouns together, and the last one decides. Röntgen + Gerät: das Gerät, so das Röntgengerät. Fluggast + Brücke: die Brücke, so die Fluggastbrücke — even though der Gast stands in front.
die Fluggastbrücke, Plural: -njet bridge (die Brücke)
das Funkgerät, Plural: -ewalkie-talkie (das Gerät)
Quick check
Schließfach ist noch frei.
Watch out · 2 of 3
One pair of sunglasses is one die Brille
English says sunglasses, a plural. German counts the pair as one thing: die Sonnenbrille, singular. Only several pairs are die Sonnenbrillen.
die Sonnenbrillesunglasses (one pair)
die Sonnenbrillenseveral pairs of sunglasses
Quick check
Wo ist Sonnenbrille?
Memory trick · 3 of 3
Everything called -wagen rolls in as der
Der Wagen is masculine, and it lends its gender to every cart on wheels: der Gepäckwagen, der Kinderwagen. The plural stays the same: die Kinderwagen. Imagine both carts racing across the hall under a blue der flag.
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