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