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der, die oder das Tee?

der Tee

It's der Tee. Tee is masculine, plural die Tees.

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Plural
die Tees
Meaning
tea
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A1
Food & drink

Example

  • Ich trinke gern Tee.

    I like drinking tea.

Why der?

Exception

-e die

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

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

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