Definite article

Definition: Definite articles are used to indicate specific nouns If you are talking about a specific person, animal, place, event, thing, or idea, you use a definite article(the). the genders of German nouns are typically shown by way of an accompanying definite article: der (masculine), die (feminine), or das (neuter).

The German definite articles are:

	Masculine	Feminine	Plural

Nominative	der Brief	die Tasche	die Leute
Accusative	den Brief	die Tasche	die Leute
Dative	dem Brief	der Tasche	den Leuten
Genitive	des Briefes	der Tasche	der Leute

	Neuter

Nominative	das Mädchen
Accusative	das Mädchen
Dative	dem Mädchen
Genitive	des Mädchenes

Examples in German:

The letter = Brief
The bag = Tasche
The girl = Mädchen
The people = Leute