Short answer: Transit takes the article der (der Transit). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “transit” in English.
Transit: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Transit
- Topic
- Travel
- Yupo level
- Beginner
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Why does Transit take der?
No suffix rule covers Transit, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Transit as something blue.
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Transit as something blue.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Transit” but “der Transit”.

