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