Pullover: der, die or das?
derPullover
Sweater
Short answer: Pullover takes the article der (der Pullover). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “sweater” in English.
Pullover: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Sweater
- Topic
- Home and daily life
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Pullover 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 →Pullover in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | der Pullover |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | den Pullover |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Pullover |
