Compound nouns: the last word decides
Datenbank die
Always In 98.9% of 6,721 common compound nouns, the article comes from the last word.
The last part decides the article: die Bank, so die Datenbank.
der, die oder das Datenbank?
die Datenbank
It's die Datenbank. Datenbank is feminine, plural die Datenbanken.
Recorded clip
- Plural
- die Datenbanken
- Meaning
- database
- In our course
- A1
- IT & office (your field)
Example
Die Datenbank ist langsam.
The database is slow.