Kennwort: der, die or das?
dasKennwort
Password
Short answer: Kennwort takes the article das (das Kennwort). It’s a neuter noun (German: neutral) and means “password” in English.
Kennwort: word facts
- Article
- das
- Gender
- neutral (neuter)
- English
- Password
- Topic
- Technology and media
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Kennwort take das?
No suffix rule covers Kennwort, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, das words are green. Picture Kennwort as something green.
See the article rules →Kennwort in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | das Kennwort |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | das Kennwort |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Kennwort |
