Depression: der, die or das?
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Depression
Short answer: Depression takes the article die (die Depression). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “depression” in English.
Depression: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Depression
- Topic
- Body and health
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Depression take die?
Nouns ending in -ion usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 86 of 86 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Depression in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Depression |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Depression |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Depression |
