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