Anwesenheit: der, die or das?
dieAnwesenheit
Attendance
Short answer: Anwesenheit takes the article die (die Anwesenheit). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “attendance” in English.
Anwesenheit: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Attendance
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Anwesenheit take die?
Nouns ending in -heit usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 17 of 17 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Anwesenheit in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Anwesenheit |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Anwesenheit |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Anwesenheit |
