Short answer: Operation takes the article die (die Operation). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “surgery” in English.
Operation: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Surgery
- Topic
- Body and health
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Operation take die?
Nouns ending in -ion usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 86 of 86 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Operation in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Operation |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Operation |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Operation |
