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