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