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