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