Vorgesetzte: der, die or das?
derVorgesetzte
Supervisor
Short answer: Vorgesetzte takes the article der (der Vorgesetzte). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “supervisor” in English.
Vorgesetzte: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Supervisor
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Vorgesetzte take der?
Exception: most nouns ending in -e take die, but Vorgesetzte takes der. Learn it together with its article.
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Vorgesetzte as something blue.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Vorgesetzte” but “der Vorgesetzte”.
