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