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