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