Short answer: Hotspot takes the article der (der Hotspot). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “hotspot” in English.
Hotspot: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Hotspot
- Topic
- Technology and media
- Yupo level
- Beginner
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Why does Hotspot take der?
No suffix rule covers Hotspot, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Hotspot as something blue.
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Hotspot as something blue.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Hotspot” but “der Hotspot”.

