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

