Ehrgeiz: der, die or das?
derEhrgeiz
Ambition
Short answer: Ehrgeiz takes the article der (der Ehrgeiz). It’s a masculine noun (German: maskulin) and means “ambition” in English.
Ehrgeiz: word facts
- Article
- der
- Gender
- maskulin (masculine)
- English
- Ambition
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Ehrgeiz take der?
No suffix rule covers Ehrgeiz, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, der words are blue. Picture Ehrgeiz as something blue.
See the article rules →Ehrgeiz in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | der Ehrgeiz |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | den Ehrgeiz |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Ehrgeiz |
