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der, die oder das Fenster?

das Fenster

It's das Fenster. Fenster is neuter, plural die Fenster.

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Plural
die Fenster
Meaning
window
In our course
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Home & flat hunting

Example

  • Bitte öffnen Sie das Fenster.

    Please open the window.

Why das?

Exception

-er der

Usually 81.3% of the 2,315 common nouns ending in -er take der.

Fenster breaks this rule: it is das Fenster, not der Fenster.

This is only a tendency. Common exceptions are family words (die Mutter, die Tochter) and das Zimmer, das Fenster.

Other exceptions die Mutter, die Tochter, die Schwester, das Wasser