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

