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