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