Short answer: Make-up takes the article das (das Make-up). It’s a neuter noun (German: neutral) and means “make-up” in English.
Make-up: word facts
- Article
- das
- Gender
- neutral (neuter)
- English
- Make-up
- Topic
- Culture and arts
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Make-up take das?
No suffix rule covers Make-up, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, das words are green. Picture Make-up as something green.
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, das words are green. Picture Make-up as something green.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Make-up” but “das Make-up”.
