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