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