Short answer: Müdigkeit takes the article die (die Müdigkeit). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “fatigue” in English.
Müdigkeit: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Fatigue
- Topic
- Body and health
- Yupo level
- Beginner
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Why does Müdigkeit take die?
Nouns ending in -keit usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 34 of 34 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Müdigkeit in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Müdigkeit |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Müdigkeit |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Müdigkeit |

