IT-Sicherheit: der, die or das?
dieIT-Sicherheit
IT security
Short answer: IT-Sicherheit takes the article die (die IT-Sicherheit). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “IT security” in English.
IT-Sicherheit: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- IT security
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does IT-Sicherheit take die?
Nouns ending in -heit usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 17 of 17 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, die words are red. Picture IT-Sicherheit as something red.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “IT-Sicherheit” but “die IT-Sicherheit”.
