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