Duty-free-Shop: der, die or das?
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Duty-free shop
Short answer: Duty-free-Shop takes the article der (der Duty-free-Shop). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “duty-free shop” in English.
Duty-free-Shop: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Duty-free shop
- Topic
- Travel
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Duty-free-Shop take der?
No suffix rule covers Duty-free-Shop, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Duty-free-Shop as something blue.
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Duty-free-Shop as something blue.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Duty-free-Shop” but “der Duty-free-Shop”.
