Short answer: Chat takes the article der (der Chat). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “chat” in English.
Chat: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Chat
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Beginner
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Why does Chat take der?
No suffix rule covers Chat, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Chat as something blue.
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Chat as something blue.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Chat” but “der Chat”.
