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