Short answer: Gipfelgrat takes the article der (der Gipfelgrat). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “summit ridge” in English.
Gipfelgrat: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Summit ridge
- Topic
- Travel
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Gipfelgrat take der?
No suffix rule covers Gipfelgrat, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Gipfelgrat as something blue.
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Gipfelgrat as something blue.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Gipfelgrat” but “der Gipfelgrat”.

