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