Fertigkeit: der, die or das?
dieFertigkeit
Skill
Short answer: Fertigkeit takes the article die (die Fertigkeit). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “skill” in English.
Fertigkeit: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Skill
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Fertigkeit take die?
Nouns ending in -keit usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 34 of 34 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Fertigkeit in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Fertigkeit |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Fertigkeit |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Fertigkeit |
