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