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