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