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