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