Short answer: Lunge takes the article die (die Lunge). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “lung” in English.
Lunge: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Lung
- Topic
- Body and health
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Lunge take die?
Nouns ending in -e usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 816 of 863 such words take die (94%).
See the article rules →Lunge in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Lunge |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Lunge |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Lunge |
