Assistent: der, die or das?
derAssistent
Assistant
Short answer: Assistent takes the article der (der Assistent). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “assistant” in English.
Assistent: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Assistant
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Assistent take der?
No suffix rule covers Assistent, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Assistent as something blue.
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Assistent as something blue.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Assistent” but “der Assistent”.
