Schüchternheit: der, die or das?
dieSchüchternheit
Shyness
Short answer: Schüchternheit takes the article die (die Schüchternheit). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “shyness” in English.
Schüchternheit: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Shyness
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Schüchternheit take die?
Nouns ending in -heit usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 22 of 22 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Schüchternheit in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Schüchternheit |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Schüchternheit |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Schüchternheit |
