Why is it der Porno?
Porno 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: der Porno.
Which endings you can rely on der
Meaning
Examples
[1] "Hopefully you will not see any porn" "
[1] „Du schaust dir doch hoffentlich keine Pornos an?“
[1] He reads a porn every now and then
[1] Er liest hin und wieder einen Porno.
More source examples (3)
These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.
[1] "Porn was clearly western dirt and was considered another symptom for the nearby demise of this morally rotted system"
[1] „Porno war ganz klar westlicher Schmutz und galt als weiteres Symptom für den nahen Untergang dieses moralisch verrotteten Systems.“
[1] "She caught her son how he was looking for porn on the Internet"
[1] „Sie hat ihren Sohn dabei erwischt, wie er im Internet Pornos schaute.“
[1] "This is why a few years ago the guards of Beijinger Zoo played the panda -bear porn to encourage them to multiply"
[1] „Deswegen haben vor einigen Jahren die Wärter des Pekinger Zoos den Pandabären Pornos vorgespielt, um sie zu animieren, sich zu vermehren.“
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | der Porno | die Pornos |
| Genitiv | des Pornos | der Pornos |
| Dativ | dem Porno | den Pornos |
| Akkusativ | den Porno | die Pornos |
Pronunciation
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