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