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