Passkontrolle: der, die or das?
diePasskontrolle
Passport control
Short answer: Passkontrolle takes the article die (die Passkontrolle). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “passport control” in English.
Passkontrolle: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Passport control
- Topic
- Travel
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Passkontrolle take die?
Nouns ending in -e usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 816 of 863 such words take die (94%).
See the article rules →Passkontrolle in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Passkontrolle |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Passkontrolle |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Passkontrolle |
