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The article for

Hühnchen

das Hühnchen

Hühnchen is a neuter German noun. Its article is das.

Plural
die Hühnchen
English
chicken
Level
B1
Topic
Food

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Why is it das Hühnchen?

Hühnchen ends in -chen, and almost all nouns ending in -chen are neuter: in a German dictionary, 94% of them take das.

All nouns ending in -chen
Sense 1
das

Meaning

[1] Young slaughtered chicken

[1] jung geschlachtetes Huhn

Examples

[1] Today there is chicken

[1] Heute gibt’s Hühnchen.

[1] "Was your Latin full of mistakes, so they browse me with fried ribs or chicken, and often they gave me money"

[1] „War ihr Latein voller Fehler, so bestachen sie mich mit gebratenen Rippchen oder Hühnchen, und oft gaben sie mir auch Geld.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ das Hühnchen die Hühnchen
Genitiv des Hühnchens der Hühnchen
Dativ dem Hühnchen den Hühnchen
Akkusativ das Hühnchen die Hühnchen

Pronunciation

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