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