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