Belegschaft: der, die or das?
dieBelegschaft
Personnel
Short answer: Belegschaft takes the article die (die Belegschaft). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “personnel” in English.
Belegschaft: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Personnel
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Belegschaft take die?
Nouns ending in -schaft usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 41 of 41 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Belegschaft in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Belegschaft |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Belegschaft |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Belegschaft |
