Promotion: der, die or das?
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Doctorate
Short answer: Promotion takes the article die (die Promotion). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “doctorate” in English.
Promotion: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Doctorate
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Beginner
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Why does Promotion take die?
Nouns ending in -ion usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 67 of 67 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Promotion in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Promotion |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Promotion |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Promotion |
