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