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