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