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