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