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