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