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