Short answer: Darlehen takes the article das (das Darlehen). It’s a neuter noun (German: neutral) and means “advance” in English.
Darlehen: word facts
- Article
- das
- Gender
- neutral (neuter)
- English
- Advance
- Topic
- Shopping and money
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Darlehen take das?
No suffix rule covers Darlehen, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, das words are green. Picture Darlehen as something green.
See the article rules →Darlehen in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | das Darlehen |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | das Darlehen |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Darlehen |
