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