Passepartout: der, die or das?
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Passepartout
Short answer: Passepartout takes the article das (das Passepartout). It’s a neuter noun (German: neutral) and means “passepartout” in English.
Passepartout: word facts
- Article
- das
- Gender
- neutral (neuter)
- English
- Passepartout
- Topic
- Culture and arts
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Passepartout take das?
No suffix rule covers Passepartout, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, das words are green. Picture Passepartout as something green.
See the article rules →Passepartout in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | das Passepartout |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | das Passepartout |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Passepartout |
