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