Short answer: Reinigung takes the article die (die Reinigung). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “cleaning” in English.
Reinigung: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Cleaning
- Topic
- Home and daily life
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Reinigung take die?
Nouns ending in -ung usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 227 of 227 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Reinigung in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Reinigung |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Reinigung |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Reinigung |
