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

