Short answer: Sellerie takes the article der (der Sellerie). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “celery” in English.
Sellerie: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Celery
- Topic
- Food and drink
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Sellerie take der?
Exception: most nouns ending in -ie take die, but Sellerie takes der. Learn it together with its article.
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Sellerie as something blue.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Sellerie” but “der Sellerie”.
