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