Allegorie: der, die or das?
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Allegory
Short answer: Allegorie takes the article die (die Allegorie). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “allegory” in English.
Allegorie: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Allegory
- Topic
- Culture and arts
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Allegorie take die?
Nouns ending in -ie usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 53 of 54 such words take die (98%).
See the article rules →Allegorie in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Allegorie |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Allegorie |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Allegorie |
