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