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