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