Mehrheit: der, die or das?
dieMehrheit
Majority
Short answer: Mehrheit takes the article die (die Mehrheit). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “majority” in English.
Mehrheit: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Majority
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Beginner
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Why does Mehrheit 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 →Mehrheit in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Mehrheit |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Mehrheit |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Mehrheit |
