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