Short answer: Pak Choi takes the article der (der Pak Choi). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “pak choi” in English.
Pak Choi: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Pak choi
- Topic
- Food and drink
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Pak Choi take der?
No suffix rule covers Pak Choi, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Pak Choi as something blue.
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Pak Choi as something blue.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Pak Choi” but “der Pak Choi”.

