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