Das Line-up enthält den Headliner.

The line-up includes the headliner.

Breakdown of Das Line-up enthält den Headliner.

• enthalten: to contain
• das Line-up: the lineup
• der Headliner: the headliner

Questions & Answers about Das Line-up enthält den Headliner.

Why is it das Line-up and not der or die?

Line-up is a loanword from English, and in German many borrowed nouns of this type are treated as neuter, so you say das Line-up.

There is not always a perfect rule for gender with loanwords, so in practice you often just have to learn the article together with the noun:

• das Line-up
• der Headliner

A good habit is to memorize new nouns as full units, not by themselves.

Why is enthält written with ä?

Because it comes from the verb enthalten, and this verb changes its stem vowel in the 3rd person singular present tense.

So:

• ich enthalte
• du enthältst
• er/sie/es enthält

This is similar to other strong verbs in German, for example:

• halten → er hält
• fahren → er fährt
• laufen → er läuft

So enthält is just the correct present-tense form for das Line-up.

Why do we say den Headliner instead of der Headliner?