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