Ingenieur: der, die or das?
derIngenieur
Engineer
Short answer: Ingenieur takes the article der (der Ingenieur). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “engineer” in English.
Ingenieur: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Engineer
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Ingenieur take der?
Nouns ending in -eur usually take der. In Yupo’s list, 7 of 7 such words take der (100%).
See the article rules →Ingenieur in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | der Ingenieur |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | den Ingenieur |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Ingenieur |
