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