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