Sabbatical: der, die or das?
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Sabbatical
Short answer: Sabbatical takes the article das (das Sabbatical). It’s a neuter noun (German: neutral) and means “sabbatical” in English.
Sabbatical: word facts
- Article
- das
- Gender
- neutral (neuter)
- English
- Sabbatical
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Sabbatical take das?
No suffix rule covers Sabbatical, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, das words are green. Picture Sabbatical as something green.
See the article rules →Sabbatical in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | das Sabbatical |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | das Sabbatical |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Sabbatical |
