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