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