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