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

