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