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