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

