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