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