Gebirge: der, die or das?
dasGebirge
Mountain range
Short answer: Gebirge takes the article das (das Gebirge). It’s a neuter noun (German: neutral) and means “mountain range” in English.
Gebirge: word facts
- Article
- das
- Gender
- neutral (neuter)
- English
- Mountain range
- Topic
- Nature and the outdoors
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Gebirge take das?
Exception: most nouns ending in -e take die, but Gebirge takes das. Learn it together with its article.
See the article rules →Gebirge in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | das Gebirge |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | das Gebirge |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Gebirge |
