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