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