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