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