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

