Der Preis für das Ticket ist viel zu hoch.

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Breakdown of Der Preis für das Ticket ist viel zu hoch.

• für: for
• das Ticket: the ticket
• der Preis: the price

Questions & Answers about Der Preis für das Ticket ist viel zu hoch.

Why is it Der Preis and not Das Preis?

In German, every noun has a grammatical gender that you simply have to learn:

• Preis (price) is masculine, so it takes the article der in the nominative singular: der Preis.
• The fact that Preis ends in -s does not mean it is neuter. The gender is arbitrary here.

So:

• der Preis = the price (masculine)
• das Ticket = the ticket (neuter)

That’s why the sentence starts with Der Preis … and not Das Preis ….

Why is it für das Ticket and not für den Ticket or für die Ticket?

The preposition für always takes the accusative case.

The noun Ticket has the following singular forms:

• Nominative: das Ticket
• Accusative: das Ticket
• Dative: dem Ticket
• Genitive: des Tickets

Since Ticket is neuter, its nominative and accusative are both das Ticket.

With für (which demands accusative), you must use das:

• für das Ticket = for the ticket

Den Ticket would be wrong because den is accusative masculine, and die Ticket would be wrong because die is feminine/plural, but Ticket is neither.

Why do we say für das Ticket and not von dem Ticket?