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