Gewerkschaft: der, die or das?
dieGewerkschaft
Trade union
Short answer: Gewerkschaft takes the article die (die Gewerkschaft). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “trade union” in English.
Gewerkschaft: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Trade union
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Gewerkschaft take die?
Nouns ending in -schaft usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 37 of 37 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Gewerkschaft in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Gewerkschaft |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Gewerkschaft |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Gewerkschaft |
