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