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Meet der Text

See how the article changes from case to case, then try the exercises.

All 3 meanings

  1. text (writing consisting of several sentences and forming a discrete unit)
  2. text (passage of a larger opus, often Scripture, examined and interpreted as a unit)
  3. lyrics, lines (words of a song, film, etc.)

Meanings from Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Forms

How the article changes

For der Text, 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

Plural die Texte · Dative plural den Texten

Examples

  1. 1
    Der kurze Text ist leicht zu verstehen.The short text is easy to understand.Nominative · subjectPractise „kurz“ →
  2. 2
    Ich lese einen kurzen Text.I am reading a short text.Accusative · lesenPractise „kurz“ →
  3. 3
    Er arbeitet mit seinem neuen Text.He is working with his new text.Dative · mitPractise „neu“ →
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