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