German Words with DAS
All nouns with the article «das» — 152 words
das Words at a Glance
Over 600 German words take the article das. Find them all below — alphabetically sorted, with meaning and declension. A few endings identify das words right away. Words ending in -chen, -lein, -ment, or -um always take das. The same rule covers diminutives like das Mädchen or das Häuschen. Verbs used as nouns also take das: das Essen, das Lesen, das Schreiben. In the accusative, das stays the same. In the dative, it becomes dem. In the genitive, des. Many Latin or Greek loanwords also belong here: das Museum, das Studium.
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Around 600 German words take the article das. These include diminutives like das Mädchen (girl), das Häuschen (little house), and das Büchlein (little book). Nouns ending in -chen, -lein, -ment, -um, and -tum are almost always das words. Examples: das Instrument, das Museum, das Eigentum, das Dokument, das Studium.
Five endings lead to das without exception or almost without exception: -chen (das Mädchen), -lein (das Büchlein), -ment (das Instrument), -um (das Museum), and -tum (das Eigentum). Diminutives and verbs used as nouns (das Essen, das Lesen, das Schreiben) also always take the article das.
The most frequent das words are: das Jahr (year), das Kind (child), das Haus (house), das Land (country), das Wasser (water), das Auge (eye), das Leben (life), das Problem, das Gesicht (face), das Ende (end), das Recht (right), das Buch (book), das Bild (picture), and das Spiel (game). These words belong to core German vocabulary.
The noun Mädchen ends in -chen. This ending makes every German word a das word — without exception. Even though a girl is biologically female, grammar follows the suffix rule here. The same applies to das Fräulein and das Häuschen. In the plural, das Mädchen becomes die Mädchen, just like all German plurals.
das is an article or pronoun. Example: Das Buch ist rot (The book is red). dass is a conjunction that introduces a subordinate clause. Example: Ich weiß, dass du kommst (I know that you are coming). Quick test: if you can replace it with this or which, use das. Otherwise, use dass.