An old fishing harbour full of nautical gear: find each thing on the quay or the water, then give it its article.
1A compound takes the gender of its last part
2Same first part, different article
3Many -er things on the quay are der
Why this matters
A picture hunt instead of a deck: one old fishing harbour with 32 things to find on the water and on the quay, every one a precise word from the sea and the docks — der Poller, die Seilwinde, der Duckdalben, das Steuerhaus, der Hummerkorb. The prompt asks Wo ist der Fender? The prompt asks for one object, 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. A tap on the wrong object tells you what you hit and you keep looking; 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 ___ Fender?), 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
Harbour words are almost all compounds. Schiff + Glocke: die Glocke, so die Schiffsglocke. Steuer + Haus: das Haus, so das Steuerhaus. Hummer + Korb: der Korb, so der Hummerkorb. Find the last word and you have the article.
die Seilwinde, Plural: -nwinch (die Winde)
das Lagerhaus, Plural: Lagerhäuserwarehouse (das Haus)
Quick check
Rettungsring hängt am Pfosten.
Watch out · 2 of 3
Same first part, different article
Steuer- makes no promise about gender: das Steuerrad (das Rad) and das Steuerhaus (das Haus) are neuter, but on land die Steuer is a tax. Likewise Fisch- gives die Fischkiste but das Fischernetz. Only the last part counts.
das Steuerrad, Plural: Steuerrädership's wheel (das Rad)
die Fischkiste, Plural: -nfish crate (die Kiste)
Quick check
Which article goes with Fischernetz?
Memory trick · 3 of 3
Many -er things on the quay are der
Things in -er that work or hold something tend to be masculine here: der Poller, der Fender, der Anker, der Kutter, der Eimer, der Kanister. Read each label aloud with its article — the blue ticks pile up along the quay edge.
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