Kontonummer: der, die or das?
dieKontonummer
Account number
Short answer: Kontonummer takes the article die (die Kontonummer). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “account number” in English.
Kontonummer: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Account number
- Topic
- Shopping and money
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Kontonummer take die?
Exception: most nouns ending in -er take der, but Kontonummer takes die. Learn it together with its article.
See the article rules →Kontonummer in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Kontonummer |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Kontonummer |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Kontonummer |
