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