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