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