Short answer: Hardware takes the article die (die Hardware). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “hardware” in English.
Hardware: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Hardware
- Topic
- Technology and media
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Hardware take die?
Nouns ending in -e usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 816 of 863 such words take die (94%).
See the article rules →Hardware in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Hardware |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Hardware |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Hardware |
