Der, die or das?
das Lebensmittel
neuter noun · food item · level A1
The plural
die Lebensmittel - in the plural, every German noun takes the article die.
Example
Das Lebensmittel kommt aus Deutschland.
The food item comes from Germany.
Why das?
"Lebensmittel" doesn't follow any of the 35 gender rules -
it belongs to the words you learn together with their article, as one unit:
das Lebensmittel. That's exactly what the app's spaced repetition is for.
Words from the same topic (Food)
Practice it, don't just read it. In the Genau app you train der/die/das
across all 2,400 words, with the rule shown on every mistake - free, offline, no account.
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