Nationalität: der, die or das?
dieNationalität
Nationality
Short answer: Nationalität takes the article die (die Nationalität). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “nationality” in English.
Nationalität: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Nationality
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Nationalität take die?
Nouns ending in -tät usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 14 of 14 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Nationalität in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Nationalität |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Nationalität |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Nationalität |
