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