Hausgemeinschaft: der, die or das?
dieHausgemeinschaft
Residents of a building
Short answer: Hausgemeinschaft takes the article die (die Hausgemeinschaft). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “residents of a building” in English.
Hausgemeinschaft: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Residents of a building
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Hausgemeinschaft 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 →Hausgemeinschaft in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Hausgemeinschaft |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Hausgemeinschaft |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Hausgemeinschaft |
