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