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דער/די/דאָס: Definite Article, Singular
(*Sometimes a definite article is used in Yiddish when in English it would be more idiomatic to use a possessive pronoun.)
Every Yiddish noun comes with an article: דער or די or דאָס. Together, the article and the noun form a pair. They belong together.
How do you know whether a noun comes with דער or די or דאָס? You just have to remember! For this reason you will hear/see the article with nouns in our vocabulary sections from now on.
Here are the nouns that you know already:
לאָמיר (lomir)
לאָמיר is used when one person suggests to another/others that they do something together.
לאָמיר is followed by the infinitive. The infinitive has the ending ן (nun) or ען (ayin-nun) (see נאָך פּרטים 2.1, 2.3).