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