Short answer: Abend takes the article der (der Abend). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “evening” in English.
Abend: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Evening
- Topic
- Nature and the outdoors
- Yupo level
- Beginner
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Why does Abend take der?
No suffix rule covers Abend, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Abend as something blue.
See the article rules →Abend in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | der Abend |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | den Abend |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Abend |
