Short answer: Trainee takes the article der (der Trainee). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “trainee” in English.
Trainee: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Trainee
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Beginner
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Why does Trainee take der?
No suffix rule covers Trainee, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Trainee as something blue.
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Trainee as something blue.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Trainee” but “der Trainee”.
