Why is it das Personal?
Personal ends in -al, but that ending doesn’t settle the article: in a German dictionary, 65% of -al nouns take das and 33% take der. So learn it with its article: das Personal.
Which endings you can rely onMeaning
[1] workforce of a business, company or a company
[1] Belegschaft eines Geschäftes, Unternehmens oder einer Firma[2] Short for: service staff or house staff
[2] kurz für: Dienstpersonal oder HauspersonalExamples
[1] In the Anton Steiner company, personnel are currently being dismantled
[1] In der Firma Anton Steiner wird zur Zeit Personal abgebaut.
[2] My grandmother complains that the staff nowadays nothing more Tauge
[2] Meine Großmutter beklagt, dass das Personal heutzutage nichts mehr tauge.
More source examples (4)
These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.
[2] "Among his bourgeois acquaintances, for whom money was a smaller concern and who could send their staff to the black market for shopping, the situation was not quite so dark"
[2] „Unter seinen großbürgerlichen Bekannten, für die Geld eine kleinere Sorge war und die ihr Personal auf den Schwarzmarkt zum Einkaufen schicken konnten, sah man die Situation nicht ganz so düster.“
[2] "Ama's mother said it was a shame that the staff can no longer be trusted"
[2] „Amas Mutter sagte, es sei eine Schande, dass man dem Personal nicht mehr trauen könne.“
[2] "Of course the countess had other staff apart from the butler: maid, cook, cook, gardener, maid, chauffeur" "
[2] „Natürlich hatte die Gräfin außer dem Butler noch anderes Personal: Zimmermädchen, Koch, Köchin, Gärtner, Zofe, Chauffeur.“
[2] "But he also had advantages: he got cheap workers, was cooked and was able to eat his staff with a hunger wage"
[2] „Aber er hatte ja auch Vorteile davon: Er bekam billige Arbeitskräfte, wurde bekocht und konnte sein Personal mit einem Hungerlohn abspeisen.“
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | das Personal | — |
| Genitiv | des Personals | — |
| Dativ | dem Personal | — |
| Akkusativ | das Personal | — |
Pronunciation
Dictionary entries include material from Wiktionary. Wiktionary