Compound nouns: the last word decides
Telefonnummer 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 Nummer, so die Telefonnummer.
der, die oder das Telefonnummer?
die Telefonnummer
It's die Telefonnummer. Telefonnummer is feminine, plural die Telefonnummern.
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- Plural
- die Telefonnummern
- Meaning
- phone number
- In our course
- A1
- Offices & forms
Example
Wie ist Ihre Telefonnummer?
What's your phone number?