Is it der, die or das Kendo?

Why is it das Kendo?

Kendo ends in -o, but that ending doesn’t settle the article: in a German dictionary, 45% of -o nouns take das, 43% take der, and 11% take die. So learn it with its article: das Kendo.

Which endings you can rely on

Sense 1

das

Meaning

[1] Sport: modified, modern type of original Japanese sword fight

[1] Sport: abgewandelte, moderne Art des ursprünglichen japanischen Schwertkampfes

[2] Japanese sword art

[2] die japanische Schwertkunst

Examples

[1] News about the Kendo: Japanese won the title in the men's team competition
[1] Neues zum Kendo: Den Titel im Mannschaftswettkampf der Herren errang Japan.

[1, 2] He is in a Kendo club
[1, 2] Er ist in einem Kendo-Verein.

More source examples (1)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[2] Kendo means that the path through the sword finds the goal is to create a ghost that cannot surprise anything that is firm and targeted.
[2] Kendo bedeutet, den Weg durch das Schwert finden. Das Ziel ist es, einen Geist zu erschaffen, den nichts überraschen kann, der fest und zielgerichtet ist.

Declension

1	Singular	Plural
Nominativ	das Kendo	—
Genitiv	des Kendo	—
Dativ	dem Kendo	—
Akkusativ	das Kendo	—

Pronunciation

In context