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