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