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