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