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