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

