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