Short answer: Region takes the article die (die Region). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “region” in English.
Region: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Region
- Topic
- Nature and the outdoors
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Region 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 →Region in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Region |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Region |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Region |
