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