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