Short answer: Heizung takes the article die (die Heizung). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “heating” in English.
Heizung: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Heating
- Topic
- Home and daily life
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Heizung take die?
Nouns ending in -ung usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 227 of 227 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Heizung in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Heizung |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Heizung |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Heizung |
