Preiserhöhung: der, die or das?
diePreiserhöhung
Price increase
Short answer: Preiserhöhung takes the article die (die Preiserhöhung). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “price increase” in English.
Preiserhöhung: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Price increase
- Topic
- Shopping and money
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Preiserhöhung take die?
Nouns ending in -ung usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 337 of 337 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Preiserhöhung in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Preiserhöhung |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Preiserhöhung |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Preiserhöhung |

