Einsamkeit: der, die or das?
dieEinsamkeit
Loneliness
Short answer: Einsamkeit takes the article die (die Einsamkeit). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “loneliness” in English.
Einsamkeit: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Loneliness
- Topic
- Nature and the outdoors
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Einsamkeit take die?
Nouns ending in -keit usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 23 of 23 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Einsamkeit in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Einsamkeit |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Einsamkeit |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Einsamkeit |
