Kaffeevollautomat: der, die or das?
Fully automatic coffee machine
Short answer: Kaffeevollautomat takes the article der (der Kaffeevollautomat). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “fully automatic coffee machine” in English.
Kaffeevollautomat: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Fully automatic coffee machine
- Topic
- Home and daily life
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Kaffeevollautomat take der?
No suffix rule covers Kaffeevollautomat, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Kaffeevollautomat as something blue.
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Kaffeevollautomat as something blue.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Kaffeevollautomat” but “der Kaffeevollautomat”.

