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