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