Sorgerecht: der, die or das?
dasSorgerecht
Custody
Short answer: Sorgerecht takes the article das (das Sorgerecht). It’s a neuter noun (German: neutral) and means “custody” in English.
Sorgerecht: word facts
- Article
- das
- Gender
- neutral (neuter)
- English
- Custody
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Sorgerecht take das?
No suffix rule covers Sorgerecht, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, das words are green. Picture Sorgerecht as something green.
See the article rules →Sorgerecht in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | das Sorgerecht |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | das Sorgerecht |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Sorgerecht |

