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

