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