Ehrenamtliche: der, die or das?
dieEhrenamtliche
Volunteer
Short answer: Ehrenamtliche takes the article die (die Ehrenamtliche). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “volunteer” in English.
Ehrenamtliche: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Volunteer
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Ehrenamtliche take die?
Nouns ending in -e usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 583 of 607 such words take die (96%).
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, die words are red. Picture Ehrenamtliche as something red.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Ehrenamtliche” but “die Ehrenamtliche”.
