What does Persönlichkeit mean in English?

In English, die Persönlichkeit means “personality”.

What are the accusative and dative forms of Persönlichkeit?

Nominative: die Persönlichkeit. Accusative: die Persönlichkeit. Dative: der Persönlichkeit.

Persönlichkeit: der, die or das?

diePersönlichkeit

Personality

feminin · feminineRelationships and communityLevel: Intermediate

Short answer: Persönlichkeit takes the article die (die Persönlichkeit). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “personality” in English.

Persönlichkeit: word facts

Article: die
Gender: feminin (feminine)
English: Personality
Topic: Relationships and community
Yupo level: Intermediate

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Why does Persönlichkeit take die?

Nouns ending in -keit usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 34 of 34 such words take die (100%).

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Persönlichkeit in the accusative and dative

Singular, with the definite article

Nominativsubject: who? what?	die Persönlichkeit
Akkusativdirect object: whom? what?	die Persönlichkeit
Dativindirect object: to whom?	der Persönlichkeit