Breakdown of Der Zustellnachweis kommt per E-Mail.
Questions & Answers about Der Zustellnachweis kommt per E-Mail.
Der is the masculine singular definite article, so it tells you that Zustellnachweis is a masculine noun.
Here, der Zustellnachweis means the proof of delivery / the delivery confirmation.
In this sentence, der Zustellnachweis is also the subject, which is why it appears in the nominative case:
- Der Zustellnachweis kommt per E-Mail.
If you changed the sentence so the noun became an object, the article might change depending on the case:
- nominative: der Zustellnachweis
- accusative: den Zustellnachweis
- dative: dem Zustellnachweis
- genitive: des Zustellnachweises
German very often combines nouns into one compound noun.
Zustellnachweis is made up of:
- Zustellung = delivery
- Nachweis = proof, evidence, confirmation
In compounds, the last part is the main noun and determines the grammatical gender. Since Nachweis is masculine (der Nachweis), the whole compound is masculine:
- der Zustellnachweis
This is a very normal feature of German. English often uses separate words where German prefers one compound.