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