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