Fürsorgepflicht: der, die or das?
dieFürsorgepflicht
Duty of care
Short answer: Fürsorgepflicht takes the article die (die Fürsorgepflicht). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “duty of care” in English.
Fürsorgepflicht: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Duty of care
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Fürsorgepflicht take die?
No suffix rule covers Fürsorgepflicht, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, die words are red. Picture Fürsorgepflicht as something red.
See the article rules →Fürsorgepflicht in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Fürsorgepflicht |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Fürsorgepflicht |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Fürsorgepflicht |
