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