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