Grille: der, die or das?
dieGrille
Cricket (insect)
Short answer: Grille takes the article die (die Grille). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “cricket (insect)” in English.
Grille: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Cricket (insect)
- Topic
- Nature and the outdoors
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Grille take die?
Nouns ending in -e usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 583 of 607 such words take die (96%).
See the article rules →Grille in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Grille |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Grille |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Grille |
