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