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

