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

