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