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