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