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The article for

Handballer

der Handballer

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

Plural
die Handballer

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Why is it der Handballer?

Handballer ends in -er, and most nouns ending in -er are masculine: in a German dictionary, 86% of them take der.

All nouns ending in -er
Sense 1
der

Meaning

[1] Sport, colloquially: athlete who performs the handball game

[1] Sport, umgangssprachlich: Sportler, der das Handballspiel ausübt

Examples

[1] "On the way to the 2015 World Cup with two wins against Hungary, the German handball players fueled a large portion of self -confidence"

[1] „Die deutschen Handballer haben auf dem Weg zur WM 2015 mit zwei Siegen gegen Ungarn eine große Portion Selbstvertrauen getankt.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ der Handballer die Handballer
Genitiv des Handballers der Handballer
Dativ dem Handballer den Handballern
Akkusativ den Handballer die Handballer

Pronunciation

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