The
"The" in German
umso
(indicating a result like the comparative)
das
(article)
de
(article)
den
(introducing dates in a letter, such as "the 1st of May 2025")
der
(article)
der
(stressed, indicating that the object in question is the only one worthy of attention)
der
(with an adjectival noun, as in “the hungry” to mean “hungry people”)
der
(with a superlative)
der
(used with the name of a member of a class to refer to all things in that class)
die
(article)
dieser
(this)
dr
(article)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.