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

