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