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The article for

Cursor

der Cursor

Cursor is a masculine German noun. Its article is der.

Plural
die Cursor
English
cursor (typically in word-processing)
Topic
IT

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Why is it der Cursor?

Cursor ends in -or, and almost all nouns ending in -or are masculine: in a German dictionary, 93% of them take der.

All nouns ending in -or
Sense 1
der

Meaning

[1] IT, computer science: visualization of the current position, in which text or other inputs are inserted

[1] EDV, Informatik: Visualisierung der aktuellen Position, an der Text oder andere Eingaben eingefügt werden

Examples

[1] MS-DOS had an underlined as a cursora

[1] MS-DOS hatte einen Unterstrich als Cursor.

[1] "I even hit the cursor on the screen of the laptop yesterday because I thought it was a mosquito"

[1] „Ich hatte gestern sogar auf dem Bildschirm des Laptops den Cursor geschlagen, weil ich dachte, es sei eine Mücke.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural 1 Plural 2
Nominativ der Cursor die Cursor die Cursors
Genitiv des Cursors der Cursor der Cursors
Dativ dem Cursor den Cursor den Cursors
Akkusativ den Cursor die Cursor die Cursors

Pronunciation

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