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