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