Gefälligkeit: der, die or das?
dieGefälligkeit
Favour
Short answer: Gefälligkeit takes the article die (die Gefälligkeit). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “favour” in English.
Gefälligkeit: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Favour
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Gefälligkeit take die?
Nouns ending in -keit usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 23 of 23 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Gefälligkeit in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Gefälligkeit |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Gefälligkeit |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Gefälligkeit |
