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