Dankbarkeit: der, die or das?
dieDankbarkeit
Gratitude
Short answer: Dankbarkeit takes the article die (die Dankbarkeit). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “gratitude” in English.
Dankbarkeit: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Gratitude
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Dankbarkeit take die?
Nouns ending in -keit usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 34 of 34 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Dankbarkeit in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Dankbarkeit |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Dankbarkeit |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Dankbarkeit |
