Bekanntschaft: der, die or das?
dieBekanntschaft
Acquaintance
Short answer: Bekanntschaft takes the article die (die Bekanntschaft). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “acquaintance” in English.
Bekanntschaft: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Acquaintance
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Bekanntschaft take die?
Nouns ending in -schaft usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 37 of 37 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Bekanntschaft in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Bekanntschaft |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Bekanntschaft |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Bekanntschaft |
