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The article for

Graupel

die Graupel

Graupel is a feminine German noun. Its article is die.

Plural
die Graupeln
English
soft hail
Topic
Weather

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Why is it die Graupel?

Graupel is a kind of weather. Most weather words like these are masculine (der Regen and der Schnee), but Graupel is an exception: die Graupel.

Weather
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] mostly plural: form of precipitation in which snow crystals are clumped together into small spheres by frozen water droplets

[1] meist Plural: Form von Niederschlag, bei dem Schneekristalle durch angefrorene Wassertröpfchen zu kleinen Kügelchen verklumpt werden

Examples

[1] "Sleet and hail rushed out of gray mountains of clouds . At first he thought: How can you take photos in this terrible country ?" [2]

[1] „Graupel und Hagelschlag stürzten aus grauen Wolkenbergen. Zuerst dachte er: Wie kann man in diesem schrecklichen Land fotografieren?“[2]

[1] “He brought ice and freezing sleet and made the streets as smooth as a mirror” [3]

[1] „Er brachte Eis und gefrierende Graupel und machte die Straßen spiegelglatt.“[3]
More source examples (1)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] “It was a clear, cold day, the ground covered with sleet that was frozen so that it seemed as if all the bare trees, the bushes, the brushwood, the grass and the bare earth were covered with a layer of ice .

[1] „Es war ein klarer, kalter Tag, der Boden mit Graupeln bedeckt, die gefroren waren, sodass es schien, als seien all die kahlen Bäume, die Büsche, die Reisighaufen, das Gras und die nackte Erde mit einer Eisschicht überzogen.“[4]

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Graupel die Graupeln
Genitiv der Graupel der Graupeln
Dativ der Graupel den Graupeln
Akkusativ die Graupel die Graupeln

Pronunciation

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