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