Abstammung: der, die or das?
dieAbstammung
Ancestry
Short answer: Abstammung takes the article die (die Abstammung). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “ancestry” in English.
Abstammung: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Ancestry
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Abstammung take die?
Nouns ending in -ung usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 227 of 227 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Abstammung in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Abstammung |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Abstammung |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Abstammung |
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