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