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