Bürgschaft: der, die or das?
dieBürgschaft
Suretyship
Short answer: Bürgschaft takes the article die (die Bürgschaft). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “suretyship” in English.
Bürgschaft: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Suretyship
- Topic
- Shopping and money
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Bürgschaft 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 →Bürgschaft in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Bürgschaft |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Bürgschaft |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Bürgschaft |
