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