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