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der, die oder das Beamte?

der Beamte

It's der Beamte. Beamte is masculine, plural die Beamten.

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Plural
die Beamten
Meaning
official (m)
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Offices & forms

Example

  • Der Beamte hilft mir.

    The official helps me.

Why der?

Exception

-e die

Usually 85.6% of the 2,894 common nouns ending in -e take die.

Beamte breaks this rule: it is der Beamte, not die Beamte.

Masculine -e nouns are mostly people and animals (der Junge, der Kollege, der Löwe). Learn der Name and der Käse as pairs.

Other exceptions der Glaube, der Junge, das Ende, der Name