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