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