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Meet der Pilot

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All 4 meanings

  1. (aviation) pilot (one who steers an aircraft)
  2. (winter sports) pilot of a bobsled
  3. (motor racing, often media jargon) driver
  4. (nautical, obsolete) helmsman (one who steers a ship)

Meanings from Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Forms

How the article changes

For der Pilot, use the coloured columns: masculine and plural.

der, die, das
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativederdiedasdie
accusativedendiedasdie
dativedemderdemden
ein, kein, mein: ein has no plural. mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser… end like kein.
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativeeineineeinkeine
accusativeeineneineeinkeine
dativeeinemeinereinemkeinen

n-noun den Piloten, dem Piloten · Plural die Piloten

Pilot is an n-noun: it adds -(e)n in every case except the nominative singular.

Examples

  1. 1
    Der junge Pilot fliegt nach Berlin.The young pilot is flying to Berlin.Nominative · subjectPractise „jung“ →
  2. 2
    Ich sehe heute einen großen Piloten.I see a tall pilot today.Accusative · sehenPractise „groß“ →
  3. 3
    Der Chef hilft seinem netten Piloten.The boss helps his nice pilot.Dative · helfenPractise „nett“ →
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