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