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