Chemotherapie: der, die or das?
dieChemotherapie
Chemotherapy
Short answer: Chemotherapie takes the article die (die Chemotherapie). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “chemotherapy” in English.
Chemotherapie: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Chemotherapy
- Topic
- Body and health
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Chemotherapie take die?
Nouns ending in -ie usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 79 of 81 such words take die (97%).
See the article rules →Chemotherapie in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Chemotherapie |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Chemotherapie |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Chemotherapie |
