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