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