Polizeiwache: der, die or das?
diePolizeiwache
Police station
Short answer: Polizeiwache takes the article die (die Polizeiwache). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “police station” in English.
Polizeiwache: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Police station
- Topic
- City and transport
- Yupo level
- Beginner
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Why does Polizeiwache take die?
Nouns ending in -e usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 816 of 863 such words take die (94%).
See the article rules →Polizeiwache in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Polizeiwache |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Polizeiwache |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Polizeiwache |
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