What does Hilfsbereitschaft mean in English?

In English, die Hilfsbereitschaft means “helpfulness”.

What are the accusative and dative forms of Hilfsbereitschaft?

Nominative: die Hilfsbereitschaft. Accusative: die Hilfsbereitschaft. Dative: der Hilfsbereitschaft.

Hilfsbereitschaft: der, die or das?

dieHilfsbereitschaft

Helpfulness

feminin · feminineRelationships and communityLevel: Advanced

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

Hilfsbereitschaft: word facts

Article: die
Gender: feminin (feminine)
English: Helpfulness
Topic: Relationships and community
Yupo level: Advanced

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Why does Hilfsbereitschaft take die?

Nouns ending in -schaft usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 41 of 41 such words take die (100%).

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Hilfsbereitschaft in the accusative and dative

Singular, with the definite article

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