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der, die oder das Zimmer?

das Zimmer

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

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Plural
die Zimmer
Meaning
room
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A1
Home & flat hunting · also A2, B1, B2, C1, C2

Example

  • Die Wohnung hat zwei Zimmer.

    The apartment has two rooms.

  • Ich möchte ein Zimmer buchen.

    I'd like to book a room.

  • Das Zimmer ist hell.

    The room is bright.

Why das?

Exception

-er der

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

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

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