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