Informatik: der, die or das?
dieInformatik
Information technology
Short answer: Informatik takes the article die (die Informatik). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “information technology” in English.
Informatik: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Information technology
- Topic
- Technology and media
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Informatik take die?
Nouns ending in -ik usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 31 of 33 such words take die (93%).
See the article rules →Informatik in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Informatik |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Informatik |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Informatik |
