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