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der die das

The German article, the moment you need it. Type a noun — DerDieDas answers before you finish the word, then shows it living in all four cases.

iPhone · iOS 26+ · Free. No account. No tracking. No ads. The dictionary works with no signal at all.

DerDieDas search screen with recent nouns

Everything about one noun, on one screen

der

The article before you finish typing

Start a noun and the article appears live. Ambiguous nouns show every article they can take.

die

The four cases, in real sentences

Nominativ, Akkusativ, Dativ and Genitiv — each shown in a natural sentence with an English translation.

das

Patterns worth remembering

Endings like -chen, -lein, -ment or -er come with the rule behind them, so the gender starts to stick.

Pronunciation

An IPA transcription for 99.9% of full entries, with a spoken clip for most of them.

Meanings

Dictionary definitions sit right under the article, so you can confirm you looked up the noun you meant.

Your layout

Sentences, pronunciation and meanings are panels. Reorder them, or switch off the ones you don't want.

Example sentences are written by Apple Intelligence on your device, so that panel needs a device that supports it. Everything else on this page works on any iPhone running iOS 26.

The whole dictionary is already on your phone

DerDieDas ships with its dictionary built in, so a lookup never waits on a network and never leaves your device.

576,195
nouns with article and gender
971,764
declined forms, every case and number
141,414
definitions across the dictionary
118,926
entries with full detail

The one thing that does need a connection is the spoken audio clip, which streams from Wikimedia Commons.

A colour for every gender

Each noun opens in its own colour, so the gender is memorable long before the grammar is.

Der Tisch detail screen
der Tisch
Die Zeitung detail screen
die Zeitung
Das Mädchen detail screen
das Mädchen

Questions

Why not just look it up online?
Because you need the article mid-sentence, not after three taps and a page load. DerDieDas answers while you type, from a database that already lives on your phone — no signal required.
Do I need Apple Intelligence?
Only for the generated example sentences. The article, the declension, the definitions and the IPA all come from the bundled database and work on any iPhone that runs iOS 26. Where Apple Intelligence isn't available, the sentence panel simply doesn't appear.
Does it work offline?
The dictionary does, completely. The one exception is the spoken audio clip, which streams from Wikimedia Commons and needs a connection.
What does it cost?
Nothing. No price, no subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads.

Private by design

No accounts, no analytics, no ads, nothing sent to us — ever. Example sentences are generated by Apple Intelligence on your device.