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