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