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