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