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

