IP-Adresse: der, die or das?
dieIP-Adresse
IP address
Short answer: IP-Adresse takes the article die (die IP-Adresse). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “IP address” in English.
IP-Adresse: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- IP address
- Topic
- Technology and media
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does IP-Adresse 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 →Remember it by color
In Yupo, die words are red. Picture IP-Adresse as something red.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “IP-Adresse” but “die IP-Adresse”.
