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German A2 Articles — der, die or das
The single hardest habit in German. Drill the gender of the nouns at your level. 60 questions at A2, ten to a set. Pick an option and the card tells you straight away whether it was right, quotes the evidence, and explains why the others fail.
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Bewegung
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Correct answer: die
die Bewegung - motion; move (step made in the execution of a plan or goal; a change in strategy)
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Traum
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Stunden
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Schluss
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Correct answer: der
der Schluss - end, ending, conclusion, finish; logical conclusion
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Firma
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Correct answer: die
die Firma - A company, a business.; A firm, the name under which a company operates, as opposed to the actual legal entity.
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Wein
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Richtung
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Correct answer: die
die Richtung - direction; school of thought, branch, subfield (also used in a wider sense of "type" in certain compounds)
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Krankenhaus
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Finger
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Glück
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Correct answer: das
das Glück - happiness, joy, bliss (state or emotion); luck, success (mostly when seen as dependant on unearned, accidental factors)
Study this word: Glück
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Is there a rule for der, die and das?
There are reliable endings — -ung, -heit, -keit, -schaft and -ion are feminine; -chen and -lein are neuter; -er, -ling and -ismus are usually masculine — but no rule covers the core vocabulary. For those, exposure is the method, which is what this drill is for.
How much does getting the article wrong matter?
You will be understood, but the article drags the whole case system behind it: get the gender wrong and every adjective ending and every dative or accusative form after it goes wrong too. It is worth the drilling.
Where can I see all the nouns by gender?
The vocabulary section lists every masculine, feminine and neuter noun separately, commonest first, with the ending patterns that predict each one.
How many articles — der, die or das questions are there at A2?
60, in 6 sets of 10. Every word used is within the A2 vocabulary.
Question material from Klexikon and the CEFR vocabulary list, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. See sources.
Questions are machine-written and machine-verified: a second model answered each one blind and disagreements were dropped. They have not been reviewed by a teacher.