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