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