Personalleiter: der, die or das?
derPersonalleiter
Human resources manager
Short answer: Personalleiter takes the article der (der Personalleiter). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “human resources manager” in English.
Personalleiter: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Human resources manager
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Personalleiter take der?
Nouns ending in -er usually take der. In Yupo’s list, 179 of 221 such words take der (80%).
See the article rules →Personalleiter in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | der Personalleiter |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | den Personalleiter |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Personalleiter |
