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