Mitarbeiterin: der, die or das?
dieMitarbeiterin
Employee
Short answer: Mitarbeiterin takes the article die (die Mitarbeiterin). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “employee” in English.
Mitarbeiterin: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Employee
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Mitarbeiterin take die?
Nouns ending in -erin (female forms of people and jobs) usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 42 of 42 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Mitarbeiterin in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Mitarbeiterin |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Mitarbeiterin |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Mitarbeiterin |
