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