Short answer: Smoothie takes the article der (der Smoothie). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “smoothie” in English.
Smoothie: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Smoothie
- Topic
- Food and drink
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Smoothie take der?
No suffix rule covers Smoothie, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Smoothie as something blue.
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Smoothie as something blue.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Smoothie” but “der Smoothie”.
