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