Schale: der, die or das?
dieSchale
Peel, shell; bowl
Short answer: Schale takes the article die (die Schale). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “peel, shell; bowl” in English.
Schale: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Peel, shell; bowl
- Topic
- Nature and the outdoors
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Schale take die?
Nouns ending in -e usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 583 of 607 such words take die (96%).
See the article rules →Schale in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Schale |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Schale |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Schale |
