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