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