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

