4 ms·
Also the dispute this generates! You wouldn't believe how many friendships are torn apart over the question of whether it is "die Nutella" oder "das Nutella".
by Zorlag 9y ago
Also the dispute this generates! You wouldn't believe how many friendships are torn apart over the question of whether it is "die Nutella" oder "das Nutella".
It is "die Nutella", just so we are clear!
- pluma 9y agoEvery time an old lady orders "das Cola", I twitch a little.
- majewsky 9y ago> das Nutella-Glas FTFY
- pluma 9y agoDer Nutella-Brotaufstrich. Two can play this game. There is no sane answer. Except for rules of thumbs like "Romance-sounding word ending in -a is probably female".
- majewsky 9y agoMy point is that, whenever you want to use a brand name like "Nutella" in a specific context and you're unsure about the gender, you can just use a compound word with a clearly defined gender instead.
- pluma 9y agoTouché. On a semi-related note: in the Rhineland gendered articles are also used colloquially when talking about people: "Der Mark", "Die Steffi" and so on. I was born into this but I'm unsure how I feel about it after finding out it's actually non-standard in the rest of Germany.
- posterboy 9y agoDas ~Glas, die ~Creme/Butter, der ~aufstrich. Since it's uncountable, it's just "gib mir <x>".