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