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

