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