Anstrich: der, die or das?
derAnstrich
Coat of paint
Short answer: Anstrich takes the article der (der Anstrich). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “coat of paint” in English.
Anstrich: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Coat of paint
- Topic
- Home and daily life
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Anstrich take der?
No suffix rule covers Anstrich, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Anstrich as something blue.
See the article rules →Anstrich in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | der Anstrich |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | den Anstrich |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Anstrich |
