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