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