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