Short answer: Pasta takes the article die (die Pasta). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “pasta” in English.
Pasta: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Pasta
- Topic
- Food and drink
- Yupo level
- Beginner
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Why does Pasta take die?
No suffix rule covers Pasta, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, die words are red. Picture Pasta as something red.
See the article rules →Pasta in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Pasta |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Pasta |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Pasta |
