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German Articles: Der, Die, Das Sorted Out
Stop guessing der, die or das: the endings that give a noun away, the full article tables, and nouns with their article in the accusative and dative.
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What it teaches
German’s three genders and four cases, the way beginners actually trip over them: which article a noun takes (der, die or das), the endings that are always feminine (-heit, -keit, -ung, -schaft, -tät), the full definite and indefinite article tables (den, dem, des, einen, einem, einer...), and putting a noun with its article into the accusative and dative. The AI asks 3 questions, places you, shows a short card per module, then gives you one noun or one table cell at a time.
Not a conversation course.
How long
56 items. About 30 rounds for a learner who knows some German up to about 60-90 for a beginner who has to learn most of the nouns, plus a 12-item final: 2 sessions (estimate, not timed with a real student). The tutor gives a one-line save code at the end of each session.
The modules
4 modules, drilled one item at a time.
- M0
The basics
Genders, cases and articles
- M1
der, die or das
Name the article: der, die or das
- M2
The article tables
The article for a gender and case
- M3
Articles with nouns in a case
Put a noun with its article into a case
Before it teaches, it asks
- 1Why are you learning German (a move, a trip, a class, work), and how much do you know now?
- 2der, die or das: Tür?
- 3Put der Hund in the accusative.
What’s exact, and what isn’t
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Straight from the course’s own notes.
- Two dictionaries must agree on every gender
- A noun is used only if English Wiktionary and Wikidata’s German lexeme give it the same single gender (51 of 55 candidates did; Hand, Messer, Tag and Tee were left out).
- Article keys come from the tables on Wikipedia’s “German declension” page, parsed from the page itself; every hand-written answer matched; a test with errors planted in it on purpose was caught by the script.
- Sourced
- The genders-and-cases line and the always-feminine endings from Wikipedia’s “German grammar”; 7 short quotes matched word for word on the live pages 2026-10-11.
- Honest limits
- Singular nouns in the nominative, accusative and dative only; genitive appears in the article tables but noun endings that change (genitive des Hundes, weak nouns like des Studenten, an old-style dative -e) aren’t drilled. No plurals, adjective endings or prepositions yet.
- Not in it yet
- Noun plurals, genitive noun endings, prepositions and the cases they take, adjective endings, more nouns.