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