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