Schönheit: der, die or das?
dieSchönheit
Beauty
Short answer: Schönheit takes the article die (die Schönheit). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “beauty” in English.
Schönheit: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Beauty
- Topic
- Nature and the outdoors
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Schönheit take die?
Nouns ending in -heit usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 17 of 17 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Schönheit in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Schönheit |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Schönheit |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Schönheit |
