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