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