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