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The article for

Geldautomat

der Geldautomat

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

Plural
die Geldautomaten
English
cash machine, ATM
Level
B1
Topic
Finance

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Why is it der Geldautomat?

Geldautomat is a compound noun, and German compounds take the article of their last word: der Automat. So it’s der Geldautomat.

Sense 1
der

Meaning

[1] Common in Germany, rare in Switzerland: ATM

[1] in Deutschland gängig, in der Schweiz selten: Geldausgabeautomat

Examples

[1] "Unforgettable the bank employee who openly and painfully declared that he was going to retire because the new ATMs made him redundant in his glass case" [2]

[1] „Unvergesslich der Bankangestellte, der offen und schmerzlich erklärte, er gehe in Rente, weil die neuen Geldautomaten ihn in seinem Glaskasten überflüssig machen“[2]

[1] "Today's ATM consists of an industry-standard PC with connected special peripherals and a safe." [3]

[1] „Ein heutiger Geldautomat besteht aus einem Industrie-Standard-PC mit angeschlossener Spezialperipherie und einem Tresor.“[3]
More source examples (2)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] "We stopped in the city center to get something from the ATM." [4]

[1] „Wir hielten im Stadtzentrum an, um etwas vom Geldautomaten zu holen.“[4]

[1] "Then he showed me the way to an ATM where I withdrew almost 20,000 Moldovan leu for 100 euros." [5]

[1] „Dann zeigte er mir den Weg zu einem Geldautomaten, an dem ich für 100 Euro knapp 20.000 moldawische Leu abhob.“[5]

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ der Geldautomat die Geldautomaten
Genitiv des Geldautomaten der Geldautomaten
Dativ dem Geldautomaten den Geldautomaten
Akkusativ den Geldautomaten die Geldautomaten

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