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