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Seehund

der Seehund

Seehund is a masculine German noun. Its article is der.

Plural
die Seehunde

Learn the noun together with its article. See the article rules.

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Why is it der Seehund?

Seehund is a compound noun, and German compounds take the article of their last word: der Hund. So it’s der Seehund.

Sense 1
der

Meaning

[1] Zoology: Representative of the animal species belonging to the dog seal

[1] Zoologie: Vertreter der zu den Hundsrobben gehörende Tierart

[2] colloquially: Robbe

[2] umgangssprachlich: Robbe

Examples

[1] This seal was a howler

[1] Dieser Seehund war ein Heuler.

[1] "Cook turned west and lasted this course for about a month, whereby little was spotted except for seals and Albatrossen"

[1] „Cook drehte nach Westen ab und hielt diesen Kurs ungefähr einen Monat lang, wobei außer Seehunden und Albatrossen wenig gesichtet wurde.“
More source examples (2)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] "The little seal wants to seduce the Seehünd"

[1] „Der kleine Seehund will die Seehündin verführen.“

[2] There are also seals on Helgoland

[2] Auf Helgoland gibt es auch Seehunde.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ der Seehund die Seehunde
Genitiv des Seehundes des Seehunds der Seehunde
Dativ dem Seehund dem Seehunde den Seehunden
Akkusativ den Seehund die Seehunde

Pronunciation

In context

[1] Seehund
[1] Seehund Wikimedia Commons

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