Short answer: Vitamin takes the article das (das Vitamin). It’s a neuter noun (German: neutral) and means “vitamin” in English.
Vitamin: word facts
- Article
- das
- Gender
- neutral (neuter)
- English
- Vitamin
- Topic
- Body and health
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Vitamin take das?
No suffix rule covers Vitamin, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, das words are green. Picture Vitamin as something green.
See the article rules →Vitamin in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | das Vitamin |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | das Vitamin |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Vitamin |
