What does Personalentwicklung mean in English?

In English, die Personalentwicklung means “personnel development”.

What are the accusative and dative forms of Personalentwicklung?

Nominative: die Personalentwicklung. Accusative: die Personalentwicklung. Dative: der Personalentwicklung.

Personalentwicklung: der, die or das?

diePersonalentwicklung

Personnel development

feminin · feminineCareer and learningLevel: Advanced

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

Personalentwicklung: word facts

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

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Why does Personalentwicklung 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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Personalentwicklung in the accusative and dative

Singular, with the definite article

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