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