Short answer: Sängerin takes the article die (die Sängerin). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “singer” in English.
Sängerin: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Singer
- Topic
- Culture and arts
- Yupo level
- Beginner
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Why does Sängerin take die?
Nouns ending in -erin (female forms of people and jobs) usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 42 of 42 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Sängerin in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Sängerin |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Sängerin |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Sängerin |
