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