Diskriminierung: der, die or das?
dieDiskriminierung
Discrimination
Short answer: Diskriminierung takes the article die (die Diskriminierung). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “discrimination” in English.
Diskriminierung: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Discrimination
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Diskriminierung take die?
Nouns ending in -ung usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 227 of 227 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Diskriminierung in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Diskriminierung |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Diskriminierung |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Diskriminierung |

