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