Nachtschicht: der, die or das?
dieNachtschicht
Night shift
Short answer: Nachtschicht takes the article die (die Nachtschicht). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “night shift” in English.
Nachtschicht: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Night shift
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Nachtschicht take die?
No suffix rule covers Nachtschicht, so learn it together with its article. In Yupo, die words are red. Picture Nachtschicht as something red.
See the article rules →Nachtschicht in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Nachtschicht |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Nachtschicht |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Nachtschicht |
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