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