der, die, das
the
The 1st most frequent word in German, appearing about 116,844 times per million words.
- Type
- article
- Frequency rank
- #1
- Per million words
- 116,844
German's three genders share one word for 'the': der (masculine), die (feminine and all plurals), das (neuter). Always learn a noun together with its article — the gender changes the words around it.
In a sentence
Der Mann, die Frau, das Kind.The man, the woman, the child.
Declension
It changes with the gender and case of the noun it belongs to.
| Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nom. | der | die | das | die |
| Acc. | den | die | das | die |
| Dat. | dem | der | dem | den |
| Gen. | des | der | des | der |
Related words
Other words of the same kind, at nearby frequency:
Practise this word
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