Lebensgefährte: der, die or das?
derLebensgefährte
Life partner
Short answer: Lebensgefährte takes the article der (der Lebensgefährte). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “life partner” in English.
Lebensgefährte: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Life partner
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Lebensgefährte take der?
Exception: most nouns ending in -e take die, but Lebensgefährte takes der. Learn it together with its article.
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Lebensgefährte as something blue.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Lebensgefährte” but “der Lebensgefährte”.
