HR-Abteilung: der, die or das?
dieHR-Abteilung
HR department
Short answer: HR-Abteilung takes the article die (die HR-Abteilung). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “HR department” in English.
HR-Abteilung: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- HR department
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does HR-Abteilung 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 →Remember it by color
In Yupo, die words are red. Picture HR-Abteilung as something red.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “HR-Abteilung” but “die HR-Abteilung”.
