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