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