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