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