Check-in-Schalter: der, die or das?
derCheck-in-Schalter
Check-in counter
Short answer: Check-in-Schalter takes the article der (der Check-in-Schalter). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “check-in counter” in English.
Check-in-Schalter: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Check-in counter
- Topic
- Travel
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Check-in-Schalter take der?
Nouns ending in -er usually take der. In Yupo’s list, 179 of 221 such words take der (80%).
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Check-in-Schalter as something blue.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Check-in-Schalter” but “der Check-in-Schalter”.
