Kompliment: der, die or das?
dasKompliment
Compliment
Short answer: Kompliment takes the article das (das Kompliment). It’s a neuter noun (German: neutral) and means “compliment” in English.
Kompliment: word facts
- Article
- das
- Gender
- neutral (neuter)
- English
- Compliment
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Kompliment take das?
Nouns ending in -ment usually take das. In Yupo’s list, 7 of 7 such words take das (100%).
See the article rules →Kompliment in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | das Kompliment |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | das Kompliment |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Kompliment |
