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