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