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

