Dateiname: der, die or das?
derDateiname
File name
Short answer: Dateiname takes the article der (der Dateiname). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “file name” in English.
Dateiname: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- File name
- Topic
- Technology and media
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
Check a dictionary
You can also check the article in independent German dictionaries:
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Why does Dateiname take der?
Exception: most nouns ending in -e take die, but Dateiname takes der. Learn it together with its article.
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Dateiname as something blue.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Dateiname” but “der Dateiname”.
