What does Personalabteilung mean in English?

In English, die Personalabteilung means “human resources”.

What are the accusative and dative forms of Personalabteilung?

Nominative: die Personalabteilung. Accusative: die Personalabteilung. Dative: der Personalabteilung.

Personalabteilung: der, die or das?

diePersonalabteilung

Human resources

feminin · feminineCareer and learningLevel: Advanced

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

Personalabteilung: word facts

Article: die
Gender: feminin (feminine)
English: Human resources
Topic: Career and learning
Yupo level: Advanced

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Why does Personalabteilung take die?

Nouns ending in -ung usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 227 of 227 such words take die (100%).

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Personalabteilung in the accusative and dative

Singular, with the definite article

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