Short answer: Freude takes the article die (die Freude). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “joy” in English.
Freude: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Joy
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Beginner
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Why does Freude take die?
Nouns ending in -e usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 583 of 607 such words take die (96%).
See the article rules →Freude in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Freude |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Freude |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Freude |
