Traktor: der, die or das?
derTraktor
Tractor
Short answer: Traktor takes the article der (der Traktor). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “tractor” in English.
Traktor: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Tractor
- Topic
- Nature and the outdoors
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Traktor take der?
Nouns ending in -or usually take der. In Yupo’s list, 25 of 26 such words take der (96%).
See the article rules →Traktor in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | der Traktor |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | den Traktor |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Traktor |
