Alleinerziehende: der, die or das?
dieAlleinerziehende
Single parent
Short answer: Alleinerziehende takes the article die (die Alleinerziehende). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “single parent” in English.
Alleinerziehende: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Single parent
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Alleinerziehende take die?
Nouns ending in -e usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 583 of 607 such words take die (96%).
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, die words are red. Picture Alleinerziehende as something red.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Alleinerziehende” but “die Alleinerziehende”.
