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