Adoption: der, die or das?
dieAdoption
Adoption
Short answer: Adoption takes the article die (die Adoption). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “adoption” in English.
Adoption: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Adoption
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Beginner
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Why does Adoption take die?
Nouns ending in -ion usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 67 of 67 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Adoption in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Adoption |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Adoption |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Adoption |
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