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