Brandung: der, die or das?
dieBrandung
Surf (breaking waves)
Short answer: Brandung takes the article die (die Brandung). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “surf (breaking waves)” in English.
Brandung: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Surf (breaking waves)
- Topic
- Nature and the outdoors
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Brandung take die?
Nouns ending in -ung usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 227 of 227 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Brandung in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Brandung |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Brandung |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Brandung |
