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