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