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