Compound nouns: the last word decides
U-Bahn 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 Bahn, so die U-Bahn.
der, die oder das U-Bahn?
die U-Bahn
It's die U-Bahn. U-Bahn is feminine, plural die U-Bahnen.
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- Plural
- die U-Bahnen
- Meaning
- underground, metro
- In our course
- A1
- City & transport
Example
Ich nehme die U-Bahn.
I take the underground.