Kastanie: der, die or das?
dieKastanie
Chestnut
Short answer: Kastanie takes the article die (die Kastanie). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “chestnut” in English.
Kastanie: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Chestnut
- Topic
- Nature and the outdoors
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Kastanie take die?
Nouns ending in -ie usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 53 of 54 such words take die (98%).
See the article rules →Kastanie in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Kastanie |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Kastanie |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Kastanie |
