Compound nouns: the last word decides
Wartenummer 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 Wartenummer.
der, die oder das Wartenummer?
die Wartenummer
It's die Wartenummer. Wartenummer is feminine, plural die Wartenummern.
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- Plural
- die Wartenummern
- Meaning
- queue number
- In our course
- A1
- Offices & forms
Example
Ich habe die Wartenummer 42.
I have queue number 42.