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Atmung: der, die or das?

dieAtmung

Respiration

feminin · feminineBody and healthLevel: Intermediate

Short answer: Atmung takes the article die (die Atmung). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “respiration” in English.

Atmung: word facts

Article
die
Gender
feminin (feminine)
English
Respiration
Topic
Body and health
Yupo level
Intermediate

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Why does Atmung take die?

Nouns ending in -ung usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 337 of 337 such words take die (100%).

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Atmung in the accusative and dative

Singular, with the definite article

Nominativsubject: who? what?die Atmung
Akkusativdirect object: whom? what?die Atmung
Dativindirect object: to whom?der Atmung

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