Learn German – The Struggle with the German Articles der, die, das
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When you learn German, then with high probability you are struggling with the German articles.
In English we only have ‘the’ for singular and plural. However, the German language has three singular articles ‘der, die, das’ plus ‘die’ for Plural. In most cases you don’t even know why you must use one vs. the other article for a noun.
For example: ‘der Kopf – the head’ but ‘das Bein – the leg’. Each one of them are parts of the body – so why ‘der’ in one case and ‘das’ in the other case?
To make learning German a little simpler for you, in particular the use of articles I am giving you a few rules:
1. All car brands in the German language use the article ‘der’
E.g. der BMW, der Volvo, der Mazda, der Ford, der VW, der Ferrari, der Mercedes
Of course, there is one exception: ‘die Viper’ and ‘die Corvette’
2. All motorcycle brands in the German language use the article ‘die’
E.g. die Honda, die BMW, die Kawasaki, die Harley-Davidson, die Aprillia
3. All German nouns ending in –keit, -heit, use the article ‘die’
There are of course a lot more of those little rules. If you like to get an entire list of rule, please subscribe to my newsletter on top. You will receive one for each one of the three German articles.
In order to learn German I’d suggest though that you just make it a habit to learn the correct article together with the noun.
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…Und viel Spaß noch beim lustigen Video mit Kaya Yanar über die Deutschen Artikel der, die ,das!
