An old farmyard full of tools, harness and animals: tap each one in the picture, then give it its article.
1Compounds follow their last part
2Young animals are das
3Farm tools in -e are mostly die
Why this matters
A picture hunt instead of a deck: one cluttered farmyard in front of a red barn, with 32 things to find, many of them old rural words you meet in novels and museums rather than in daily talk — der Dreschflegel, das Kummet, die Egge, der Taubenschlag on its pole. The prompt asks Wo ist die Sense? and you tap it 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. Once you have passed a run, the hunt turns harder: the prompt hides the article (Wo ist ___ Sense?), and after the find you choose der, die or das yourself. A tap on empty sky or grass 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. No object is asked twice in the same run.
Rule · 1 of 3
Compounds follow their last part
Melken + Schemel: der Schemel, so der Melkschemel. Scheune + Tor: das Tor, so das Scheunentor. Wagen + Rad: das Rad, so das Wagenrad. The first part only says what kind; the last part brings the article.
der Wetterhahn, Plural: Wetterhähneweathercock (der Hahn)
das Hufeisenhorseshoe (das Eisen)
Quick check
Futtertrog steht vor der Scheune.
Watch out · 2 of 3
Young animals are das
Baby animals are neuter, whatever the gender of the grown animal: das Ferkel next to die Sau, das Kalb next to die Kuh. The grown animals in this yard are not: die Ziege, die Gans, die Katze.
das Ferkelpiglet
die Gans, Plural: Gänsegoose
Quick check
Which article goes with Ferkel?
Memory trick · 3 of 3
Farm tools in -e are mostly die
Many of the hand tools here end in -e, and nouns in -e are usually feminine: die Sense, die Egge, die Raufe, die Laterne, die Pumpe. Picture them in a row along the barn wall, all wearing red labels.
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