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