Erste Hilfe: der, die or das?
dieErste Hilfe
First aid
Short answer: Erste Hilfe takes the article die (die Erste Hilfe). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “first aid” in English.
Erste Hilfe: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- First aid
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Erste Hilfe take die?
Nouns ending in -e usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 583 of 607 such words take die (96%).
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, die words are red. Picture Erste Hilfe as something red.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Erste Hilfe” but “die Erste Hilfe”.
