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Question

what do the german words 'die' and 'der' mean

Answer 1

They are definite articles in the German Language which are put in front of the substantive like the in English,
Der for masculine words. Die = feminine and Das = neutral all in singulars. But there are also definite articles in plural Like Die (m) den (fem) and die (neutrum).
To make it more complicated there are four causus (case) Nominativ, Genitiv, Acusativ and Dativ and the definite article change refered to which causus ist used. It looks complicated but it isn't, one get used to it.

Answer 2

Most previous answers were correct. DIE and DER are, along with DAS, three ways to translate "THE" into German. You use DER before nouns which are masculine in German (der Junge, the boy; der Mond, the Moon, etc.) You use DIE before nouns which are feminine in German (die Frau, the woman; die Sonne, the sun, etc.) and you use DAS before words which are neutral in German (das Fenster, the window, das Auto, the car, etc.) But for plural nouns of any gender, you will always use DIE: die Jungen, die Frauen, die Autos (the boys, the women, the cars).

It's not really so simple, anyway, because an article will also change after certain prepositions, or in different syntactic positions (as an object, for instance) so that you'll say:

Der Junge arbeitet (the boy works/is working)

but:

Frage den Jungen (ask the boy)

and:

Gebe das dem Jungen (Give it to the boy)

and:

Die Freundin des Jungen (The boy's girlfriend).

Answer 3

"der" is "the" for masculine nouns, and "die" is "the" for feminine nouns, as other have said.

However, I should also point out that "der" is also used for feminine nouns in certain cases such as dative and genetive cases. For example, the world "Welt (world)" is feminine, so "the world" would be "die Welt". However, if you use the word in another case, it is sometimes "der Welt", such as "in der Welt (in the world), which is still feminine.

Answer 4

If my memory of high school German class serves me correctly, then Jordan and Robert E_B are correct.

Answer 5

those are feminine and masculine forms of the word "the"

Answer 6

die: those

der: that

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Answer 7

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