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

