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