What does Gepäckkontrolle mean in English?

In English, die Gepäckkontrolle means “baggage check”.

What are the accusative and dative forms of Gepäckkontrolle?

Nominative: die Gepäckkontrolle. Accusative: die Gepäckkontrolle. Dative: der Gepäckkontrolle.

Gepäckkontrolle: der, die or das?

dieGepäckkontrolle

Baggage check

feminin · feminineTravelLevel: Intermediate

Short answer: Gepäckkontrolle takes the article die (die Gepäckkontrolle). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “baggage check” in English.

Gepäckkontrolle: word facts

Article: die
Gender: feminin (feminine)
English: Baggage check
Topic: Travel
Yupo level: Intermediate

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Why does Gepäckkontrolle take die?

Nouns ending in -e usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 816 of 863 such words take die (94%).

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Gepäckkontrolle in the accusative and dative

Singular, with the definite article

Nominativsubject: who? what?	die Gepäckkontrolle
Akkusativdirect object: whom? what?	die Gepäckkontrolle
Dativindirect object: to whom?	der Gepäckkontrolle