Erzählung: der, die or das?
dieErzählung
Story, tale
Short answer: Erzählung takes the article die (die Erzählung). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “story, tale” in English.
Erzählung: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Story, tale
- Topic
- Culture and arts
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Erzählung 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 →Erzählung in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Erzählung |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Erzählung |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Erzählung |
