Short answer: Spotlight takes the article das (das Spotlight). It’s a neuter noun (German: neutral) and means “spotlight” in English.
Spotlight: word facts
- Article
- das
- Gender
- neutral (neuter)
- English
- Spotlight
- Topic
- Culture and arts
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Spotlight take das?
No suffix rule covers Spotlight, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, das words are green. Picture Spotlight as something green.
See the article rules →Spotlight in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | das Spotlight |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | das Spotlight |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Spotlight |
