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