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Kurzsichtigkeit: der, die or das?

dieKurzsichtigkeit

Short-sightedness

feminin · feminineBody and healthLevel: Advanced

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

Kurzsichtigkeit: word facts

Article
die
Gender
feminin (feminine)
English
Short-sightedness
Topic
Body and health
Yupo level
Advanced

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Why does Kurzsichtigkeit take die?

Nouns ending in -keit usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 34 of 34 such words take die (100%).

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Kurzsichtigkeit in the accusative and dative

Singular, with the definite article

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

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