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