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