Mannschaft: der, die or das?
dieMannschaft
Team
Short answer: Mannschaft takes the article die (die Mannschaft). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “team” in English.
Mannschaft: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Team
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Mannschaft take die?
Nouns ending in -schaft usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 37 of 37 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Mannschaft in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Mannschaft |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Mannschaft |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Mannschaft |
