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