What does Dorfgemeinschaft mean in English?

In English, die Dorfgemeinschaft means “village community”.

What are the accusative and dative forms of Dorfgemeinschaft?

Nominative: die Dorfgemeinschaft. Accusative: die Dorfgemeinschaft. Dative: der Dorfgemeinschaft.

Dorfgemeinschaft: der, die or das?

dieDorfgemeinschaft

Village community

feminin · feminineRelationships and communityLevel: Advanced

Short answer: Dorfgemeinschaft takes the article die (die Dorfgemeinschaft). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “village community” in English.

Dorfgemeinschaft: word facts

Article: die
Gender: feminin (feminine)
English: Village community
Topic: Relationships and community
Yupo level: Advanced

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Why does Dorfgemeinschaft take die?

Nouns ending in -schaft usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 37 of 37 such words take die (100%).

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Dorfgemeinschaft in the accusative and dative

Singular, with the definite article

Nominativsubject: who? what?	die Dorfgemeinschaft
Akkusativdirect object: whom? what?	die Dorfgemeinschaft
Dativindirect object: to whom?	der Dorfgemeinschaft