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